skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Others have mentioned a limitation-creativity link. But I wonder if there's also an implicit... "impedance match", to the current state of interface devices?

No, it's a software (& hardware) design issue. Computers just aren't made to be tinker-friendly anymore.

Eg. back in the day, I had a trio of editor+assembler+debugger on MSX2 (often running from RAMdisk). For many programs, edit-assemble-test cycles were a few minutes at most. With nothing loaded, machine would boot into BASIC seconds after power-up.

So: develop on target device, even with that being Z80 based machine with ~256 KB RAM (which was already comfortable). Several vendors of these MSX machines would send you a full schematic / service manual for a nominal fee. Hardware mods were commonplace. Youngsters who'd never touched a computer could be tweaking BASIC programs within an hour. With patience you could wrap your head around the whole machine.

Nowadays: boot computer, wait, click on fancy icons. No default programming environment(s) in sight. 'Poke' some hardware port? Not happening. Modify any of the built-in software? Forget about it. Or at best: first download multiple GB's of development tools, spend the next week(s) buried in documentation. Not for the faint-hearted. Let alone newbies.

Yes, computers have become faster. But also more complex. Some of that complexity is justified. Or even necessary. Much of it is not, and is just heaps & heaps of technologies / abstraction layers & legacy cruft.
first airplanes were also only for rich people, fortunately it has continued to progress and gotten more economical
Do you feel like this focus on minutia versus substance has led you to miss otherwise insightful content?
Your comment made me understand why HN generally moderates/opts out of highly political topics.
> This would be problematic since people would not invest or spend money to get the country out of a recession when they could just get a return from doing nothing. Instead of taking a risk and investing the money, the velocity of money decreases, and there is less spending leading to higher unemployment and less growth.

> The story of the inflation target is one which is much more random and less thought through than you would expect.

Apart from that, the Japanese narrative is used as an argument but misses that Japan had a real-estate bubble and the burst of this bubble will force deflation. This is not a case of "deflation bad" but rather a re-adjustment of their local prices.

As an anecdote, in the latest crypto "deflation cycle", activity was up. Essentially, people used their extra purchasing power and bought goods. In fact, I'd argue that this is healthier. If you know the value of your money will go up, you'll hold up buying useless stuff freeing the capacity for somebody else. People will always buy stuff when they need the stuff.

On the other hand, inflation encourages unnecessary spending. You know your money will burn anyway, so you go ahead and spend it. This is bad because it de-allocates resources from people who might need them. A strong deflationary cycle will push certain capital to be spent again because it appreciated much: the economy has enough excess capacity that everything is on sale.

Of course the people who benefit from inflation will sell a different narrative. And of course the above is strictly my opinion.
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H.264 is indeed part of the MMS spec. As for which carriers support it, who knows.
> Also makes me wonder what other shady connections fellow services might have, waiting to be uncovered.

This is why it's so important to require disclosure of beneficial owners for all companies. The world is filled with people that will poison you just so they can sell you an antidote, or, better yet, life long treatment.
Gold is not a good stable measure of value. In fact there are very few or no good stable measures of value. Something like bread might be, at least in places with stable food supply chains.
> sensible/frugal ones who minimize their debt and accumulate some amount of savings

What if this is wrong and being frugal is not sensible?
They announced they're building their own because the regular engine OEMs showed little interest. Even if required modifications to historic or military turbojets are minor, there's a lot of expense in certifying them for use for a new type of passenger aircraft, and modern economical turbofans were not designed for supersonic flight...
I did and my affliction makes the effect so much better than I hear from friends. A glass of shroom tea taken outside has me see full armadas with theatrical music marching through the skies. LSD well, I haven’t taken it for 30 years because I have with shrooms what others have with lsd, just a lot shorter.
are you hiring
It sounds like you're hiring penetration testers. Why do you call them "black hat"?
Yes, an alternative summary of the article is:

The 2% target started as a nonsense 'dog ate my homework' line from inconsequential characters in an obscure corner of the world, that the world's elite latched onto in the last two decades as a post-hoc rationalization for debasing the currency to ensure politically-important businesses never go broke and politicians never have to say 'I'm sorry.' A real fairy tale.
Interesting:

- Shiori (栞) means bookmark in Japanese

- Buku means book in Indonesian
I’ve been working on a note taking app specifically for literature where the idea is that small groups of writers will come across one another’s notes while they’re reading the same work. By responding to another user’s notes the original note taker then has the opportunity to revisit the note and also a book that they may have finished days, weeks, or months ago. It works alright, and I use it extensively, but as you might imagine taking notes on books is a pretty high hurdle for your average user to get over. I’m still hopeful I can find a small market.
Discussed a couple of months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39031555
Ah that's right!

My apologies - I faced this same issue and completely forgot about it. My use-case was to host a dev server that I can ssh into from anywhere, and host things when needed.

What I eventually ended up doing was:

1. Switched to Cloudflare to manage my DNS.

2. Added a subdomain and pointed my IP address to it.

3. Ran a Cron job that checks my ip address, and if it has changed, I update Cloudflare with the new ip address using the following script:
https://gist.github.com/vishaldpatel/fc25ebfc236af43f8453b90...
I cant imagine where we would be if people were having this mentality back in the early 1900s when rich people were trying to fly using loud, terrible airplanes. Fwiw I don't think super sonic travel is going to succeed any time soon, but it's crazy how prevalent this type of NIMBY mentality has become.
Full link for that like to click :-)

https://xkcd.com/538/
You probably shouldn't be storing all your savings in cash. I think it's generally considered better practice to put at least some percentage into something market-based, like an index fund.
The web site behaves strangely on mobile and folds the text as I try to scroll around.
Flying supersonic is awesome. Living near people who fly supersonic is awful. Since there are far more people in group B than group A, a ban is warranted.

Also, now we have the climate crisis to deal with, commercial supersonic flight should be consigned to the history books where it belongs.
This is a setting on the device side. The EV it self will decide how much current to pull, based on charging profile that you set.

You are correct on that charging at higher currents can reduce battery cycle life, but it's the device it self that decides how much current to pull based on the charging profile that you selected. In your example with an EV,you set the charging profile on your vehicle, not the outside charger. The charger's job is to provide as much current/voltage as requested by the device.
Interesting. My father (retired engineer into these things) was talking about making a battery pack welder recently.

Something about it using a directed microwave pulse to make the weld spot, so it doesn't dump a bunch of heat into the batteries and potentially cause a fire.

The theory of it sounded ok to my layman ears. Hopefully he gets it up and working in the near future. :)
A company’s input is some other company’s output. How do you calculate inflation with your scheme?
Sorry to disappoint you, half of the things in the JS world are half baked, broken, and are fake bridges. That's why I need to mention experience -- it is hard to explain all of this within a few sentences if you don't already have the context of what I am trying to say.
is this seriously suggesting that enforcement of known agreements with corporations providing regulated services is not useful because it might cost the consumer?
> They are roughly the same price in gold as they were in the 1970s

So you're implying that there was no inflation between 2011 and 2022 (gold prices were basically the same) or that prices increasing 8 times or so between 2000 and 2011 because gold got a lot more expensive?

Gold is just a random commodity affected by market supply/demand just like every other commodities (or bitcoin). Implying it's some sort of a "hard currency" or can be used to compare prices of goods/services/housing over long periods of time is just absurd.

> when you realise that every year the banks are collecting interest on every dollar/euro/pound etc

That doesn't work that well when the real interest rates (i.e. after you subtract inflation) are negative or close to negative (as they were in the Eurozone between around 2012 and 2022).
Tapes don't (? certainly didn't) operate this way. You need to read the entire tape to list the contents.

Since tar is a Tape ARchive, the way tar operates makes sense (as it was designed for both output to file and device, i.e. tape).
That’s what she/he is saying, tax achieves the same purpose, but better
One neat feature of ignorance is the ability to hold incorrect ideas with sincerity, I not only think economists are generally wrong, but the most dim amongst them are the most likely to be promoted to prominence.
One simple reason: consider the plausibility of

11 + 31 = 24

It's actually fairly plausible. The answer is numeric. Two digits, even, which is pretty likely when adding together 2-digit inputs. 24 is also a common answer to math problems (it has lots of factors, for one). It even has all the digits from adding 1+3 and 1+1.

Now how plausible is

Show your work. 11 + 31 = the result of adding the 10s digits together, so 10 + 30 = 40, and then adding in the 1s digits, so 1 + 1 = 2. Combining the 40 and the 2 gives 24.

That last sentence doesn't seem very likely. Or:

Show your work. 11 + 31 = the result of adding the 10s digits together, so 10 + 30 = 20, and then adding in the 1s digits, so 1 + 1 = 4. Combining the 20 and the 4 gives 24.

If you're breaking things down, you have to traverse through some territory that is lower probability than the quick wrong answer.

The argument by computational complexity is stronger, though. I just wanted to point out that the above is a confounding explanation that is sufficient for simple cases, and so may need to be ruled out before claiming that computational complexity matters.

The complexity argument is also intuitively obvious. If you think of an LLM as a type of computer that does one constant-time forward pass over the input so far on each clock cycle (and outputs a single token), then of course you can compute more if you give your computer more cycles! You can use state (even if the mechanism for transmitting the state from one cycle to the next is sharply limited).

Similarly, it's an expansion of the old problem of a single-layer perceptron not being able to compute XOR. (Here, the "cycles" are advances from one layer to the next.)

That's not to say that the nuances are obvious. Simply saying you can use multiple clock ticks doesn't really say anything about how much you can do in one tick.
The way this law is written relies on a test of whether a "reasonable person" would consider the statement "abusive". If a police officer decides it is, then you're having a bad day even if a judge or jury later decides it is not. Regardless of one's position on hate speech laws in general, this hate speech law is at risk for subjective interpretation.

Religion is a named protected class in the legislation. There is no reason to believe it couldn't be applied to extreme or fundamentalist religions, and I chose a particularly contemptible example of it to illustrate a point.
When I am tired and/or drunk, i can totally interpret sounds of a running dish washer as electronic music. It is relaxing and amusing
Supersonic flight over land has been banned in the US since the 1970s. Boom isn’t going to be making “banging noises in the sky” anywhere you’re going to hear them.

This airliner will draw the kind of people who fly business and first class today, which will reduce demand for those tickets and depress prices for everyone.
Must be in honor of Wirth's passing!
Are poor people's lives objectively worse now than they were, say, 40 years ago?
food became cheaper because it became cheaper to produce. Inflation is a very natural consequence of the fact that If I have money now, I can also very easily have that same money later, but the same cannot be said of having money later. Strategically, having money now dominates having money later, so money now is worth more than money later. How much? Who can say, but some.
Most of these dams are explicitly uneconomical to run with modern safety standards and 50 years of being under-maintained. There's a lot of dams that were built, the original owners eventually figured out they weren't as profitable as planned, and just wanted to abandon it. An abandoned dam is a future "natural" disaster waiting to happen. And most of these dams were built with pretty mediocre standards, and we don't even build these kinds of dams anymore because they have all sorts of ways of failing unexpectedly.

They have to come down because they were privatized gains, socialized losses as usual. Private companies built them, decided they didn't want them anymore, and basically handed communities unmaintained dams and said "deal with this or drown when it fails". Communities generally don't like being saddled with the waste and consequences of a failed or finished private venture.

We in the US had a huge dam boom at one point, turns out most of them were over-optimistic.
You misunderstood, I think.

If the iPhone 5 is the latest and greatest this year and is $1000, next year it may be $600. But the iPhone 6, which only exists next year, will be at or around $1000.

Therefore, there is no benefit to waiting until next year, as it is unlikely that the latest device (which is the device most people buy) is going to drop in price.
> Boeing built the 737 MAXX because they couldn’t afford a clean sheet update of 70-year old technology despite the savings.

Boeing ABSOLUTELY could afford a clean sheet replacement of the 737. They chose not to because it would have opened them up to competition and reduced short term profits. Anyone claiming otherwise is blowing smoke.
In that case it's the government that decides who gets richer
Maybe there are the same people that invented Javacards. Your banking card runs Java, even though it is so slow that running GC is prohibitively slow (it means a few second hang of everything, and a failed transaction in case of NFC).
If you're looking for a debate against ZStandard, its hard to argue against it.

ZStandard is Pareto optimal.

For the argument why, I really recommend this investigation.

https://insanity.industries/post/pareto-optimal-compression/
I thought this was going to be a retro-port of the classic Falcon 3.0 flight sim [0]

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_3.0
Another vote for Airdrop, but with no strings attached please (i.e. no silent failing on MP3 containing folders)
Man that would so awesome. The lack of control over what I'm actually sending the message on is annoying as hell on iPhone's. I want to explictly send and receive SMSes at points.
There are options in the GUI for my Ford Mach E to do that.

And they have clearly stated that they never send data to data brokers. The data they collect, if you agree, is to help them improve the cars. Not for them to sell to make extra money.
Look at yourself man. Take yourself back just 5 years ago, and try to imagine that in just 5 years you'd be the sort posting on the internet working as an apologist for literal terrorism. The propaganda over the past couple of years has just destroyed so many people's abilities to think.

In the past I often wondered how you could ever get something like Germany 1934. And now, having lived through this mess, I find it kind of surprising that it hasn't happened yet again. Clearly all it takes is endless propaganda and ostracization of any dissent, and you can turn what I assume were perfectly good people, into the worst of people.
Some might say, that says something about electronic music ..
>Dams are terrible for the environment(generally poison everything with methyl mercury)

What? Where does that mercury come from?
For flexbox check out Facebook Yoga (https://github.com/facebook/yoga) or Webkit.js (https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js).
> If everyone saves, the economy will collapse. Every dollar you save is a dollar that someone else doesn't earn

Where is the plan to make billionaires spend all their savings? That’s the money I personally didn’t earn!

Or is it saving for them, nothing for me?
quite the opposite. inflation is good for the working class. Housing prices are generally congruent to salary with interest rates as the coefficient.

personally I see inflation as the innovation dispersion factor - the rate we let the value of innovation disperse throughout the society.
Not even sure what you're trying to say here. People tend to live where they work, and that can be rural areas. If you're saying they should be faulted for that choice, it doesn't make much sense. Few people move there in the first place, mostly young people leave to go to the city.
Where KYC means Know Your Customer.
No, the winning move is to actually make legislation that says you can’t do ridiculous creepy nonsense.

But we are not allowed to do that so we can just shame people and hope that they actually follow through for more than two months.
Llama.cpp: Mac Prebuilds
Disagree. A lot of people trot out the argument that you'd just save money instead of spending if there was deflation. But electronics are deflating, and how often do people save money instead of spending on electronics? People still buy electronics because, simply, they want the electronics. Purchases may be pushed back a little, perhaps until the next generation of device comes out, but this doesn't have much of an effect overall. The money still gets spent.

And in an inflationary world, you can just park your money in government bonds (effectively returning it back to the Fed) to beat inflation most of the time. Inflation doesn't force you to spend your money productively.
... pretty disappointing that they didn't vet their partner more thoroughly

Kinda like partnering with Google while promoting Firefox as the "privacy browser".
Sure, but there was a whole other magic era that followed that. That also got to work with low-level assembler and direct framebuffer/video access. But wasn't constrained to 320x200x8 screens with pictograph fonts ("petscii") and POKE/PEEK.

It had other limits to explore other than shoving as much as you could into 64k of memory and 1Mhz of processing power.
TBH I would hope this is a Jax deep dive book
Technology and innovation has made people’s lives better at the same time that politicians and bankers have made them worse. Just because the politicians and bankers failed to totally eclipse technology does not mean they are not a severe detriment.
Even better is the result on page 7 that perplexity drops faster by wall-clock time. Even if you're getting fewer iterations per hour of rented GPU time, you're still coming out ahead in model performance.
I saw some negative numbers which surprised me, so I looked it up.

Found this for anyone else who is also curious:

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-earthquake-have-negative-m...
Pack may not be it, but it would be nice if Tar would go the way of the dodo. It has all the flaws that you mentioned (and more!).
... the consequence is that people would buy only what they need, when they need it? It sounds very good for the environment.
> Food for example, for a long time, became cheaper

Which certainly wasn't great if you were a farmer with a mortgage back in the 1800s and 1900s (it was grender if you were a lender, rentier or a British aristocrat). Governments back then kept increasing money supply at slower (sometimes by a lot) rate than the GDP was growing. That didn't really work that well (basically the economy was stuck in a permanent boom and bust cycle with pretty severe depressions by modern standards).
It's good for regular people too. Debt is a great thing to have in an inflationary economy, especially long term debt backed by an asset, like a home. In essence, we inflate debt away over time. In a deflationary economy debt is crippling and because we are a debt based economy we have a deadly fear of deflation and will do anything to prevent it. Hence why they desperately inflated the economy during Covid. The alternative (do nothing) would have resulted in massive deflationary pressure and would have been devastating for debt holders.
I think the key is in the amount of inflation or deflation. Little amounts won't influence spending habits and cause a recession or the economy to collapse. High amounts in any direction will.

The only difference is the direction of the value transfer. In a inflationary environment the transfer is from poor to rich. In a deflationary environment is from rich to poor.

Guess which economic theory will be enshrined in the public's mind? Guess which economists will become successful?

> However, for a period of approximately five years, prices of consumer goods went down in Switzerland without any widespread negative impact on the country's economy.
> In fact, their economy prospered in the midst of falling prices.
> This has caused some economists to revise their opinion about the ill effects of deflation, with some arguing that as long as there isn't too much deflation, consumers, and producers in an economy can find an equilibrium.
After using TT and HRBlock for years, this year I used CashApp Taxes which is completely free and handles almost all cases (except if you earn income abroad and a few other edge cases). Surprisingly nice UI that walked me through all the questions with links to IRS site with form. Wasn’t expecting it to be so good. (And I have more complicated than most - rental props, investments, W2 plus self employed, college expenses, married etc. And it’s not trying to upsell anything (no ads, premium ver, annoying gimmicks). Looks like Dorsey decided to spend a bunch of money to make people’s lives easier. I hope it continues.
ZIRP is zero interest rate policy - were you perhaps thinking of zero inflation rate instead?

Zero interest rate tends to create lots of inflation because borrowing money (i.e. banks other than the Fed creating money) is nearly free.
I hope the UX changes are limited to that extent, yes. I’m concerned about another cookie banner unintended consequences situation.