skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will grant that the PPI and CPI are not in a clear lead-follow relationship, for composition reasons that I mentioned above and that are covered in the article you posted.

However, the PPI can still be a leading indicator of the direction that consumer prices are moving. Here's a recent article from the Federal Reserve on this question:

> However, we also see a considerable positive correlation between lagged values of monthly PPI inflation and the current month's inflation. In particular, the correlations between current monthly PCE inflation and previous months' PPI inflation up to seven months back are all greater than 0.3. This is our first clue that PPI inflation contains information for future changes in the PCE price index.

https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/economic_b...
This still falls prey to the most insidious type of lying: lying by omission.

So many times I've seen primary sources as reported by a user posting a video on Twitter, and later I'll read news coverage of that same type (from either side), and they'll omit essential pieces of information that don't fit their narrative, or include irrelevant information that pushes their narrative. The latter category is often an attempt to frame your thinking or make you think a certain way about a target.
None of that permits said states to successfully subpoena/raid ByteDance.
Somehow they managed to become one of the most important websites for software developers despite neglecting every product feature you miss.
Civil lawsuits aren't really justice at all in the first place anyways. At least not by that measure.
This is a timely reminder to anyone still using Zimbra 8.x.x that is reaches EOL at the end of next month. There is no official open release of later versions despite much being covered by open source licenses. If you have not already moved off Zimbra you need to, ASAP, do one of the following:

1. Pay for Zimbra and upgrade that way.

2. Try compile up a later version yourself…

3. Migrate to one of the forks that sprang up (most of them are dead though, Zextras/Carbonio is still going but last time I looked the system requirements were a bit daft for what little functionality I actually need)

4. Migrate to something else entirely.
Official Rules Screenshot:
- https://imgur.com/a/nXRNoya
- https://postimg.cc/KkPHLSWS
Is that true at scale? If I tell the telecoms that I want to send a billion messages per year it seems like they might be willing to take a lump sum instead of setting up the systems to bill based on usage.

I have no experience directly with foreign telecoms, so I was simply explaining how something with no marginal cost could still be a very expensive system.
Depends on level, no? Certainly it seems higher up (PhD or other research-oriented role), rote busy work may be necessary from time to time, but it also requires more creative work trying to synthesize new ideas.
My gen 1's had so many issues with the earbuds having crackling and squealing when set to anything but no processing mode. Swapped them through support I think five times before the program expired.

Bought the gen 2 USB-C ones as soon as they got discounted and love them. The noise cancellation is noticeably improved. I'm mostly fine with the stock tips but do have some of the Comply foam tips which give a little tighter seal.
There's also a lawsuit that Seattle Public Schools filed earlier this year. Not sure where that's at but it looks like there was activity as recently as last month.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66933258/seattle-school...
Mandatory reading about Adderall

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
It is pretty bad, I suppose a third-party call center might be able to make better software.
imagine if they didn't though because it was just societally accepted that kids having access to sugary-cereal-producing magic rectangles was completely normal, even out in public—plus adults also use their own magic rectangles almost as much as kids, and kids learn by watching adults.
We tried this about a year and a half ago and ended up going somewhat backwards into DD entrenchment, because they've decided that anything not an official DD metric (that is, collected by their agent typically) is custom and then becomes substantially more expensive. We wanted a nice migration path from any vendor to any other vendor but they have a fairly effective strategy for making gradual migrations more expensive for heavy telemetry users. At least our instrumentation these days is otel, but it's the metrics we expected to just scrape from prometheus that we had to dial back and start using more official DD agent metrics and configs to get, lest our bill balloon by 10x. It's a frustrating place to be. Especially since it's still not remotely cheap, just that it could be way worse.

I know this isn't a DataDog post, and I'm a bit off topic, but I try to do my best to warn against DD these days.
Good luck, I'll be rooting for you!

Currently balance updates are manual. The idea of account linking is actually a bit of a contentious topic in the PL community. Initially I wanted to steer clear of that notorious support/maintenance/cost tar pit and design a tool where the focus is more on long-term projection rather than fixating on the latest daily stock price fluctuations and possibly missing the forest for the trees.

Later this year I do plan to take another look at those services though.
It should be noted that if you ask most people whether foreign news contains propaganda, they'll say it almost certainly does, but if you ask them whether our news contains propaganda, they'll say it's pretty unlikely, minor, or they can easily spot and dismiss it.
It's not the equivalence. Breaking down things down to elements and comparing them misses the unique structure and our response to that. Apple are the same as orange if you break them down into fructose/glucose.
Offering self-hosted servers would probably just degrade the security guarantees of Signal if people misconfigure them. Doesn't seem to be worthwhile for the Signal foundation to run into this risk of undermining their own reputation for a niche user base who cares about self-hosting.
Have you considered running your own uncensored LLaMA2 instance via something like llama.cpp on a cloud for hire like, say, Azure?

Some examples - there's probably a whole zoo of these:

https://ollama.ai/blog/run-llama2-uncensored-locally

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored-GG...

https://ollama.ai/library/llama2-uncensored
eBay doesn't block Google voice numbers. The only site which seems to is Discord in my experience.

Personally I prefer to use a non-obvious dedicated email per account e.g. ebpnw@mydomain.com, so the attacker has to guess the email as well.
I think there's a difference between what Coca Cola has done and what Instagram has done.

I've had someone who isn't me have to visit mental wards (practicing doctor) and almost all the wards have a strict no FaceBook, no Instagram, no TikTok after leaving. Almost all return patients end up pointing fingers at those companies.

Haven't heard of anything similar from Coca Cola products, extremely scary IMO.
It’s interesting that they support currency units. Wonder how the conversion works. Probably have to provide conversion factor as well?
While the limitation part is right, start-up porn may also be an issue.

My VC buddy calls all this (Business Cards etc.) start-up porn because in the end it is not important. He wants to start a open source project. Nobody is going to sue him in Taiwan as long he does no crazy things (e.g. open an auction site ibay ) or something.
In business, you get what you pay for. Cheaper hosting might raise more issues that need to by handled by your employees, who also are expensive, and also the organization's focus gets disrupted. The hosting company / cloud vendor has an enormous economic advantage, with access to the entire hardware and software stack, the engineers who built it, people whose full-time job is operating it. Often it's cheaper to pay more for better.

As I have to explain about open source, 'Free is only free if your time is worth nothing.' (And I use a lot of FOSS, it just not always the solution.)
I completely forgot I had that active haha
Yep exactly! We got a lot of inspiration from Kubernetes and Nomad - we think their declarative job format and the use of arbitrary package binaries (WASM/Docker) was how they caught fire and changed an ecosystem.

Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau
> I'm building a bridge. Should be done in 2050.

Are you suggesting 25-year timelines are too long to countenance [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects
This is excellent.

Sometimes founders and investors have more real life horror stories than attorneys because we pay the bills.
I have made around 90$ with my personal laptop in my side business.

Not sure this is the amazing answer you are looking for :)

But I bought it in 2007. It is a Compal FL90. Currently running Windows 10 perfectly. That is actually amazing.
I copy and paste chunks for small changes, or ask for fully updated code and copy the whole thing if there are complex changes. Your project sounds very interesting! I'll give it a try, thank you
Ohio still had +8% (53-45) for Republicans in the last presidential election. You're acting like Democrat voters are a majority held back by the legislature, but the presidential election isn't affected by gerrymandering. All of their more recent elections had an even starker difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ohio_elections
I fail to understand the point of supporting an organization that is completely against self-sovereignty like Signal is. Why would I want to pay someone to develop something that traps me into their platform and does not offer a way out?
I assume you're kidding, but I'm going to respond as though you didn't because I think many here may unironically believe you.

Nope - it's exactly the opposite. The kinds of people with the pure autism needed to get good at Factorio, Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress end up as world-class developers. Some of the best historians are going to be minted by expert paradox game players.

The games we should regulate are the garbage, zero-thought zero-gain games. Even fortnight and roblox are highly educational compared to the legalized child gambeling I see with those stupid ticket machines at places like Dave and Busters.

Also, shooters are unfortunately a national security thing. I can show you videos from the US military, especially US tank trainers and rifle trainers about how shockingly familiar that these systems are even to people who have no experience with them due to realistic portrayals in their video games. This is why "Americas Army" existed at all.
Apple fans will tell you anything, but my experience is that macOS is actually much less efficient than windows out of the box and not even running more useful stuff.

The complaints about Windows are mostly on low-end machines loading all kind of crappy background software that are always running and eating a lot of ressource for not much (very often antivirus, VPNs, file syncing stuff, "cleaning" software and more).

If you do not overload your Windows install with all kinds of useless crap it will just be better and snappier than macOS on the same amount of ressource. I can tell you that much from building some hackintoshes...

Funnily enough Apple software is notoriously bad on Windows, so I'm pretty sure where the problem is.
Almost like making more money by selling more powerful hardware leads to shitty low end specs experience.

To be clear I think macOS is cool and a pretty good OS but the reality is that to make the most of it and the software that can run, you need a powerful machine that is extremely expensive, and even more so since Apple soldered the RAM/storage to control price.

This is precisely why there is outrage, everyone who has had an entry level Apple device knows very well how miserable an experience it is but also how much worse it will get.

On paper an iPhone 6s was "supported" for a long time; in practice it's 16GB of base storage made it almost unusable barely 3 years after launch. You could only install 10 apps at best and not put much music, or other media.
The "real" price of an iPhone was effectively 200 more or something like that to access the relevant level of minimum storage that was advisable.
But this way Apple gets to advertise a price, and instead of subsidizing better devices by making only a small number of variants and using an average cost for pricing they prefer to individualise the rip-off. The poorer you are the more they steal from you. I truly hate Tim Cook, not only because he raised the prices at a time where Apple needed it the least but also because he made despicable greedy corporate behavior the new norm.
I guess he makes a lot of money, because only money matters in life...

I find it funny that there are still some people defending this behavior. The only way it doesn't affect you is if you are rich enough to buy the fully loaded version of their hardware and then it just become blaming peoples for being poor. An occupation a lot of Apple users like to engage in very often in my experience; in fact the meaner, incompetent but luckier they got in life, the better the correlation.
Seconding three of four of these: Embody, high CRI lighting, air purifiers.

Thirteen years on my Embody so far, it’s doing fine.

Edit: Also, any 200+ ppi display. My old eyes need the extra pixels to read comfortably.
Apple to support RCS messaging standard next year
There are people who register domains like polizei-dortmund.nrw, set up a reverse proxy to a real police site, and set up a email server. Then, they send an official looking mail to discord.com‘s support with some made up emergency, like the person behind account X is a suicidal, depressive teen and one of their online-only friends reported to us (the police) that he intents to end his life. Then, discord instantly gives us the IP and even address (if they had purchased nitro), and we got that person doxxed.

This is a service available on the obvious scene boards. It’s classic social engineering, and I bet it works for these car tracking services too.
Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38000843 - Oct 2023 (443 comments)
> It never became a thing on touch screens because it's not discoverable

Is that why? Discoverability on touch screens has been deprioritized in most other respects, why would this one thing be special?
Why buy a $750 FPGA that emulates a CRT when you can buy a $20 CRT?
They are peer-to-peer by default between people in their contacts list. That is for when calling someone that isn't in your contacts list or for people that have enabled the relay all calls option.
I agree - largely. ChatGPT cannot program for me (it fails on anything that is a bit more complicated than very-common problems). It cannot write a good algo for me (unless the algo is a very standard one, if so, why do I need it to write it?). It gives incorrect information, a lot of the time. The docs it is trained on are outdated, many times methods, etc.. it suggests no longer exist, or the API endpoint has been deprecated. It doesn't seem to have a "sense of time" meaning it seems just as likely to suggest data from 10 years ago as data from 1 year ago.

But there are some times, where something is behaving very strangely, and ChatGPT helps me work through it. Examples are complex SQL queries, quickly combining existing queries, oddities in CSS, etc..

It may not give super-accurate answers, but at least it gives something that I can work with or work on.

I think this makes it a valuable tool, but it's not going to replace developers. Well, sure. Some people will just use ChatGPT rather than hire a programmer - I've worked with business owners who learned to code rather than hire programmers. I don't expect different results in either of these cases, the code will be very flawed, have huge security issues, and not be maintainable.
Terror on repeat: A rare look at the devastation caused by AR-15 shootings
>Privacy

That’s a very bold statement from an app that still requires a phone number using a broken protocol (gsm) to “verify” your identity and authenticate it, sim swap attacks can be carried out by kids these days. Also, don’t expect privacy when you are using a proprietary OS like iOS or one full of Google services that also have proprietary firmware drivers, they (the adversaries) don’t need to even decrypt these “privacy apps” when it’s easier to access the backdoor-ed OS or hardware, but enjoy the illusion in the meantime.
I bought a waterproof USB-C rechargeable headlamp after having to deal with a clogged gutter in a very heavy rainstorm. My non-sealed headlamps were useless and holding a sealed flashlight while up on a ladder sucked.

It's handy even when not on your head since you can angle it almost anywhere.
Edit:

Lol predictable response proving my point.

You got your money, who cares if your product hurts people right?
Human-created and intelligence-created are not mutually-exclusive
> This is not Apple opening up iMessage to other platforms. Instead, it’s the company adopting RCS separately from iMessage.

Very important.
> but advertising companies have profiles down to the individual

That's just because candy/cereal companies don't need it. Slap a superhero or Elsa on the cereal box and you'll have 50% of kids under 5 crying until their parent buys the cereal.
Some of us don’t want to wait until the heat death of the universe for the code to compile (not a snipe at boost as a whole - boost units is quite bad iirc). There’s also performance problems if the compiler isn’t able to see through all the templates although that’s true for many things in this space. Finally iirc it doesn’t let you define your own custom units which is a common challenge with dimensional analysis as a library.

If rust ever gets more complete const generics, then things like tiny-uom might work.
That's another good way to do it for sure, and IMO badly underused within the Python ecosystem specifically.
>My point was that you can essentially prove the design is sound before you even build the thing

That depends on your design and if you need experimentally derived inputs
This was a whole Simpsons episode.
20/month for every chat service I use is very steep. I'd be spending more on chat services than on mobile data + unlimited calling + landline + DSL + streaming services combined!

They actual costs are apparently about 1 USD per year per user. I usually at least double (usually more) my incurred cost when the donation is optional, to cover for those who can't or won't pay, but paying 240× the cost price seems wasteful as well when there are other nonprofits that can do more good with every dollar you give them (be it solving poverty, climate change, whatever you find valuable) rather than one which has mostly fixed fees
> Performance optimization has become a lost art.

It's really not very hard, basically add indexes wherever lookups are done but don't go overboard, especially with tables that see a lot of inserts. The DB will tell you what it's doing if you ask, it's all easily investigated. If your joins resist optimisation your data structure is probably off.

> I won't even touch on proper design, which requires someone with significant database expertise from the get-go

In more extreme cases this is true, but a few basic principles and an understanding of databases will get you 95% of the way there and is quite intuitive. Something as basic as "don't copy data around, each individual entity exists in one place, and use its key to refer to it otherwise" will help enormously.
I doubt they are under copyright, if they were, cover bands or bands making covers of songs would be getting sued willy nilly.
I've seen locks used at the CMSes of large news organizations. It's fine, but they all need a mechanism to kick out an editor who has an idle tab left open. For my own small scale CMS, I just wrapped Google Docs and let them handle all the syncing headaches.
That was amazing, thank you.
Whatsapp got pretty big at 1 eur/year (iOS) and 1 eur for lifetime (Android) here in the netherlands.

I do fear they'll loose most tech un-savvy users because they don't know how to pay (safely).
You are absolutely right, and also understood that my goal is to help writers create interactive stories.

Of course games are way more than that, and storytelling is not limited to full stories.

World building, character design and even the “metaphors” we use in game mechanics ARE types of storytelling and benefit from narrative design.

Thanks for pointing this out, it might be helpful for other people that are not necessarily writers trying to create interactive stories.
The eSIM is going to be more expensive than a regular SIM since no MVNO I'm aware of in the US supports eSIMs
It’s beginning to sound like the 1 EUR/year that at some point WhatsApp wanted to charge and it seemed reasonable to me at the time. Signal is even better and even more so justified.
I enjoyed this blog post but, broadly, conversation on the topic of news epistemology has always irked me because i detect an implication that there exists an "unbiased" recounting of events. This is naive.
10% was just a smallish number. In my experience, it's actually less than 1%.

Code typically follows one of two paths:

* It's in an unused/underused part of the app. Performance doesn't really matter.

* It's in a highly used part of the app. Performance matters, but you'll never be able to predict the features that get layered on top of it. Fix performance as you build those new features.
Managing Dotfiles on Windows 11 with NixOS
Amazon to let dealers sell cars on its site
I looked into this a while back and came to the conclusion I maybe/probably didn't need to do it upfront but it was cheap enough that it was probably worth going ahead and doing. As it turns out, my timeframes for doing anything with the business slid out but a don't really regret having put the LLC un place.
What If Our Western States Were Shaped by Watersheds?
"John Wesley Powell thought our western borders should be shaped by watersheds. A 130-year-old map shows how the West would have looked."
I would suggest that a Wyoming or Nevada LLC is probably your best bet in terms of low fees, low taxes, and relatively decent laws.

Delaware is great if you want someone to eventually either invest in or buy your company, but the fees associated with Delaware corporations and LLCs are very high.
Whoa. This is the first article on ADHD that wasn’t a flaming pile of shit. Only thing I would add to this is “don’t forget to use your wheelchair aka adhd meds. No sense making your life more difficult than it needs to be.”
> income tax from employees working in oil industry,

Everyone pays income taxes.

If the mob starts paying income taxes, is that a good reason to bring racketeering back?

Why are they paying the same mineral rights fees for extracting from a protected state park, as they would from non-protected land? Is a park designation utterly meaningless in Ohio?
FairEmail development may cease due to Google 'security' requirements
> November 16, 2023: I'm considering giving up developing public Android apps. It has become too difficult and too time-consuming, and I have to do it all alone. I've tried to make the Fluid Attacks scanner work for FairEmail, without knowing if Google will accept that. It works partly, but I can't solve all issues, there are even issues in the AndroidX libraries. However, Google requires all issues to be solved. It is frustratingly slow, so I might need to put days or even weeks of effort into it, with an unknown outcome, and that's not particularly motivating. I'll see what Google says first.

- Marcel Bokhorst (M66B)
seeing copper tubing used as conductors like that makes me remember ill advised (but fun) "quarter shrinker" attempts.

The switches on the transmitter power output are exciting. I'd like a look inside one of those. it seems a particularly sparkly kinda thing.
Amazon Shoppers Can Buy a Hyundai Online Starting Next Year