skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Due to hedonics/replacements inflation hasn't reflected what people actually feel for a while now.

The hedonics/replacements occur in the data because what is looked is taken from surveys of what people buy:

* https://www.bls.gov/respondents/cpi/

I just happened to answer a question on the CPI in Canada in another forum: The CPI you see in the headlines is made of of various components (Shelter, Food, Transportation, etc), the proportions of which are determined by spending surveys:

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

As people change their buying habits the items that are tracked also change to reflect what consumers are spending. Here are the items in each category:

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

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

You can see the list of changes going back to 1913 at (coal and lard were removed/replaced in 1956):

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

It should also be noted that the number reported in the headlines is the national average, while the prices can vary widely depending on your location. So in the report for February 2024, the national number was 2.8%, but Alberta had 4.2% while Manitoba had 0.9%:

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240319/dq240... (Chart 5)

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/2018016/cpi-ipc...

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=181000... (searchable by province)

StatCan has a "Personal Inflation Calculator" where you can enter your own numbers/budget and find a number that may be closer to what's happening around you:

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015...

Remember: the CPI is a model of reality, and not reality itself. It is used as a guide, and to use the words of [Alfred Korzybski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski):

* [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)
I love the simplicity of Bulma! For someone that does not want to dig into the mess that css can be, it simplifies a lot. I built my personal site with it (https://thebigg.dev/). Congrats on reaching a 1.0!
"Paradox of thrift". Economic version of losing weight by cutting off your toes.
WordPad? Is that you I hear?
All the fiat currency units in existence are a loan to a bank somewhere. That is over a hundred trillion dollars for the US alone. If you're receiving 2% of $100,000,000,000,000 each year, for money you printed out of thin air, you're not going to worry about the effects of CPI on your monthly budget.
No.

They split the traffic between domestic and international making Montreal no longer useful as an interchange hub.

They failed to implement any proper connections to the city itself, which is related to but not due to the distance.

They also failed to place the airport in between two cities to have a bigger market for it.
I liked the 32F746GDISCOVERY which is $56 at Digikey. It has a Cortex-M7 CPU, 1 MB built-in flash, 8 MB of SDRAM, and a 480x272-pixel touchscreen. Games can go on a microSD card. There's a USB OTG port you can use for input.

A low-res screen like this works well because the chip can't rescale its video output.

ST provides libraries for all the peripherals so it's pretty easy to jump in if you know C. I think microPython works on a lot of these boards, too.
For an alternative, take a look at Optery (YC W22). We've been flagging the situation at OneRep for years and put a statement out following the Krebs article (link below). We launched to the public as a Show HN in 2021 and as a Launch HN in 2022. Full disclosure, I'm one of the Optery founders.

https://www.optery.com/optery-statement-following-investigat...
URLs resolve not to ip addresses but to some form of static identifier such as the hash of the content. Static sites are retrieved via static identifier and are therefore incredibly easy to cache and even extremely popular sites are cheap to serve because most requests never make it to the origin server.

There is no need to visit archive.org, the internet archive can directly seed the content it deems worthy of archival. Abstrusegoose.com eventually expires and the new owner points it to new content but the old site sticks around indefinitely, it is accessible via hash for as long as someone seeds it.
Apple Silicon Macs. Aside from that, yes very boring, especially the silly stuff like watches, pencils, and credit cards. That said, I'd rather our country respect private property, also it's not like there's a ton more innovation left in these spaces anyway.
Bit weird for them to do Elvis impersonators like this (voice is now protected as part of your image). Surely that’s protected speech…
Stating facts does not require some kind of counter narrative.

Eventually you will die: What is the alternative that you envision?
Kinda sad that we're still in that victorian era tech 8-/
> Technology and innovation has made people’s lives better at the same time that politicians and bankers have made them worse.

That's the SV fantasy!: I'm awesome and a super-genius, everyone else is useless, dumb and annoying, and therefore I should be all-powerful!. It's like they're all still 13 year olds hacking on their computers, where they finally feel really powerful. It's almost as if they've never learned anything more about the world - humanities are just entertainment for the wealthy - leaving themselves vulnerable to the most obvious self-deception.

One might say that technology and innovation have turned our world into a hellscape, with massive social and political breakdown, massive mis/disinformation, and climate change. Maybe some innovation can build us new supersonic jets, better oil extraction, more effective automated online persuasion, or some snazzy financial tech - like CDOs, crypto, and private equity.

On the other hand, our political institutions did an amazing job of getting the US through a global pandemic without even a recession. There are serious problems, such as housing and education prices, but I don't think anyone could have predicted how well things went economically.
Your money won't be worth more in the future if production decreases.

You'll end up with stagflation -- prices going up but no one working tomorrow valuable stuff.
I don’t see how the government could force any company to make a product that works on a competitor’s product (e.g. forcing Apple to make the Watch work on Android).

What I can see them doing is forcing Apple to allow the same level of access to APIs, sensors, etc. for competitors to be able to make their own integrations (e.g. publish the Watch protocols and allow third party apps to use them). Or to allow apps on the phone access to the same APIs, like allowing Tile to use the same APIs available to AirTags. There’s already precedent for that where Microsoft had to publish the SMB protocol so Samba could use it.
No president of either party deserves much direct credit for job creation or blame for job loss, except maybe Federal jobs. This is part of the egregious "CEO in Chief" mythology the US really needs to move past.
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Thanks. This helps a lot.

However, I am concerned that the @reflex_local_auth.require_login decorator [1] merely redirects users to the login page.

> Although this seems to protect the content, it is still publicly accessible when viewing the source code for the page! This should be considered a mechanism to redirect users to the login page, NOT a way to protect data.

So, I have to put an if-else condition on the State data associated with each protected page, in addition to this decorator. The reasonable way to do it would be for the decorator to actually prevent any data load at all before redirecting. This will prevent a lot of mistakes, besides removing boiler plate.

[1] https://github.com/masenf/reflex-local-auth
Wouldn't a 2.5 day work week actually be the solution to the "two-income-trap"?
I agree that it would increase inequality not decrease it like people would assume a wealth tax (inflation + capital gains tax) would do. The problem I see with the government having their revenue tied to wealth tax becomes incentivized to do things that will make the wealthy wealthier, like maintain a higher rate of inflation.
The Risks of Internet Regulation
Despite their cool look and visually appealing design, QUGVs are still not optimal for practical real-world applications. Their limited mobility in comparison to UAVs for ISR operations, coupled with a mediocre payload capacity relative to traditional UGVs, results in a platform that have disadvantages from both categories. In my opinion, QUGVs are primarily beneficial for educational purposes or just a show or a ‘wow’ reaction from those outside the robotics field. For example, Boston Dynamics cannot descend stairs in reverse last time I checked, while Unitree tend to overheat rapidly, with internal components that are susceptible to failure, and they are constructed with cheap components, such as three Jetson Nanos, rather than a single, more robust SBC, etc.
Super Mario Maker has been beaten
Reminds me of when the xkcd forum went down - I never registered or commented, but it had threads for every xkcd comic, plus other geek discussions, some of which were quite funny. I spent hours reading them.

And then one day there was a banner speaking of a very serious security breach, the forum was down, and that was it.

Good things don't last. :/
Total cost of ownership of a cat is considerably more than $300, unless you plan to make your cat hunt its own food, fail to license it, and never take it to the vet.
How is it significantly different than what happens when banks invest money that is left in checking/savings accounts?
People don't compare how well they were off 40 years ago vs today, they remember how things were in recent history - i.e. 3-4 years ago and then decide if they are better or worse off.

Inflation is a killer for the poor and most of the middle class - and a boon for the wealthy (who own appreciating assets) - everyone I know who is not wealthy enough to not care, is feeling it.
I mean, if you trust the math, you can just YOLO it and see what happens. The FAA is the major hurdle there though, because they don't trust the math, nor do they have the ability to really analyze it. So how far they have to go is mostly up to what they can get approved for, and how long it'll take to provide the data the FAA needs to give them the go-ahead.

It's fairly likely they'll find things that need changing along the way, which may also result in the need for additional regulatory oversight, so, double impossible to know if this will be flying at design speeds in a year or ten years or ever.

I'm sure we'll get a HN post about it when it does however.
Sure it is, especially when the interest rate is less than the inflation rate. But even when not, over a long enough period a fixed rate will be eclipsed by inflation making the actual cost of the debt significantly less. This is great as you’re holding an asset worth far more than what you owe and it can be used to finance more debt if you wish.

Some people take on too much debt. But overall asset backed debt is a great system that lets people build wealth.
AT&T won't say how its customers' data spilled online
So what do you use that's better? Your personal experiences don't tell us much about the other 320+ million people.
I run some tests. Single model of the same size is better than MoE. Single expert out of N is better than model of the same size (i.e. same as expert). 2 experts are better than one. That was on small LLM, not sure if it scales.
This comes after "Trimming the Herbs", the last remaining uncompleted level, was admitted to bing a tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) by its creator and therefore disqualified: https://twitter.com/Ahoyoo_Twitch/status/1771286936944099483
I have in the past wondered about using small-scale dehumidifiers/desalination as an outlet for peak solar generation in, say, California, but water's probably still too cheap to justify it.
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Was_a_Woman_and_Ot...
If we operated on a deflationary currency, the value of your labour would be tied to cost of goods, and your salary would decrease each year, while the rich continued to accumulate more of the proportion of cash. Working people would still have to spend most of their income on survival, while the rich would be free to sit on piles of deflationary currency and become even richer.

In an inflationary currency, the rich invest in assets that aren't affected by inflation. Inflation is not the problem in this scenario. Hoarding wealth is. This would be increased with a deflationary currency.
In the US, subpoena's without a judge's signature have a lot of room to be challenge and if Apple isn't challenging, just handing over when a cop comes asking, that's their right to avoid the work of defending users but it's also reasonable for users to know that Apple won't take steps to defend them when it can because Apple doesn't want the difficulty. This is true for pharmacies in the US too which all hand over your prescriptions to cops without a court-signed warrant, just a procedural request from the pig.
Thanks for your interest in Azure Cache for Redis!
The Enterprise SKUs (E-series) takes less provisioning time. Around 7 min. Hosted in Linux. Would that fit your requirements?
When I joined the physics major at college, I didn't really know what was taught in the physics field. I was disappointed when it wasn't about internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors.
Both the website and the project's Github repository loudly trumpet that they are "open source" next to photos of proprietary hardware.

In https://github.com/PetoiCamp/OpenCat-Old/issues/7, the creator admits that the "nyboard" (https://docs.petoi.com/nyboard/overview) at the heart of their robots is derived from Arduino, but insists that they don't need to comply with the licensing terms for derivative boards (https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/4415094490770-L...) because Arduino is unlikely to sue them.
Did the computer revolution really make things that much more efficient? Great savings and new possibilities on many fronts, but also enormous expenses and a whole lot of lost flexibility and individual agency.

I'm sure it is an efficiency win on the total, but perhaps not as gigantic as often assumed.
"Housing" ... mostly a NIMBY problem. AKA not a small group of capitalists ruining it for everyone else, but a bunch of soccer moms who hate any densification and insist that their neighborhood must stay the same forever, weaponizing environmental laws to stop any development. Notably, cities that build nonetheless, be it Austin, TX, or Warsaw, Poland, buck this otherwise very widespread trend.

"Education, healthcare" ... depends on the country involved, plus the extent of healthcare you can now get is vastly bigger due to scientific progress. Forty years ago, HIV infection was a death sentence and most cancers too.
I'm skeptical about that last one. I mean, preventive care increases live expectancy sure but the rest of it is a rounding error. Add on top of that the fact that most people in the US have insurance - and that the people who don't are largely young and so relatively healthy.

I would take your list and add something about drugs though because this country loves to get wrecked.
Gem indeed! Here's its wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
WOW ok, thanks so much for doing my homework for me! I guess I just have to look into a high level government position that encourages me to follow my own interests, easy peasy…
I doubt the differences in performance between all the „neural“ models are statistically significant. It strikes me as odd that a model like TFT can be the worst of the „neural“ models in one benchmark and at the same time be the best in another benchmark. Also what is the point of Benchmark I ? „It comprises 15 datasets that were also part of the training data of Chronos models“ . That is not forecasting. That is just remembering/overfitting these time series.
I mean shares are all digital and that's not how we do it. I don't think it's a technology problem. It's just WAY easier to give more to someone than it is to take from everyone.
Google has a huge incentive to compete because Apple has 50% of the US market, which is the most consequential market in the world
> 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.

As you reject ignorance (which I applaud), what knowledge is that based on?
My comment is not making any claims about that. It's just a correction that filesystems with "81k 1KB files" are indeed common.
AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals
It might be palatable if it's quite a bit less expensive, which could be the case if we start passing externalized costs (e.g. offsetting the impacts of carbon emissions, pollution, noise, etc.) down to the consumers who use these services.
(Almost?) exclusively on military planes which have different return on investment needs than commercial aircraft that need to be efficient first and foremost (ask Convair and BAC/Sud Aviation how many airlines valued speed over efficiency).
> Can it transfer the photos you have in iCloud? Or the passwords that Apple will “conveniently” store in its internal password manager? Or the bookmarks you have on safari? Or the messages you have on iMessage? Or the notes you have saved in your phone? Or the reminders you have set up? Or the alarms that you have?

Just want to comment, some of these (like passwords & bookmarks) are very easily exportable. iMessage is backed by MySQL, exportable in its own. Google can very easily make that integrations seamless if it so wanted.
If you haven't heard yet, now's the time to mourn bash.org :(
> money the banks print

Banks don't print money. The government can.
Cache coherency and better prediction is the main reason I went down this path in the first place. Sorting by the function to be called rather than just a grab bag of arbitrarily ordered `.Update()` calls (which is what happens in Unity, being my main reference point for this) is going to give some speed gains, even with the indirection still there. Of course eliminating some indirection is usually a win.
Data brokers are like the hydra, one goes down and another 2 new ones pop up. It's a lot of work to keep on top of deletions if you want privacy.
Land zoned for development is the one thing you cannot produce in factories. No wonder that densely populated areas feel the shortage.

Zone more land for denser development, and you will see the rents and home prices fall, or at least stagnate. That is why people started building skyscrapers immediately after reasonably developed lift technology was available.
Because users get a scary warning if they don't do that. Unlike Mac or Windows, where users can download stuff outside the Mac or MS store without warning, so big companies don't use the stores.
There's a memorable bit from the book Immune [0]:

> This is what Neutrophils do when they create a Neutrophil Extracellular Trap. Or NET for short. If Neutrophils get the impression that drastic measures are called for, they begin this crazy kind of suicide. First their nucleus begins to dissolve, freeing up their DNA. As it fills up the cell, countless proteins and enzymes attach to it—the sharp bone splinters from our little story. And then the Neutrophil literally spits out its entire DNA around itself, like a giant net. Not only can this net trap enemies in place and hurt them, it also creates a physical barrier that makes it harder for bacteria or viruses to escape and move deeper into the body. Usually the brave Neutrophil dies doing this, which seems obvious.

> Sometimes, even though they vomited out their DNA, these brave warriors continue to fight, throwing acid at enemies or swallowing them whole and doing Neutrophil stuff before they finally die of exhaustion. The question could be asked if a cell that has given up its entire genetic material is still alive. In any case, it can only go on for so long—without DNA a cell has no way to maintain its inner machinery. Whatever this cell is—a living entity or no more than a zombie following its last commands mindlessly—it keeps doing what it was made to do: It fights and dies for you, so you can live. No matter which of its weapon systems it uses, the Neutrophil is one of your fiercest soldiers and one that enemies, and our own bodies, are rightfully pretty afraid of.

[0] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669586/immune-by-ph...
The development cost -- of the tooling and the games, let alone hardware! -- is too high. Additionally, 3D games aren't products of their host hardware as much as (older) pixel art games are/were.
Emscripten sausage. Or a kind of a web turducken.
This. If they can go after the guy for fraudulent misrepresentation or something, I'd be on the sidelines cheering every jab, maybe contributing if there's a legal "attack the stalker companies" fund.
I usually get an audiobook first. If the story is good I will get the ebook since I can read it much faster and want to dedicate the time and concentration to it.

If it's mediocre why bother reading it when I can get its contents while I cook or do laundry.
> So what do you use that's better?

If the government would stop trying to micromanage the economy, then it wouldn't need to find some aggregate statistic to use, no matter how misleading or counterproductive it was.
> “OnStar Smart Driver customer data is no longer being shared with LexisNexis or Verisk,”

Note that they haven't stopped sharing the data completely, only to those two data brokers.
MobileSafari is currently the only thing preventing a Chromium web monopoly.
I don't want to go into excessive detail, but I've had an equinix account for several years. At some point I took a new position which took my attention away from the fact I owed them about $7.50. Understandably, they disabled my account. I paid it (late).

But oh my God... getting my account re-enabled ... I felt treated like a criminal. The whole thing as I told them was "creepy, strange". The whole process dragged on for a few weeks.

Then I heard this story about 2 months ago and figured they were hard vetting. Of course they never mentioned why I was getting the 3rd degree.
You mean to tell me having the world's least efficient ports (worse than even Tanzania), is a bad thing?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-ports-key-us-sup...
What the heck happened to the ACLU? They've gone from being an organization that wasn't concerned with what people thought about them to one that will do what it takes for the right people to love them.
The only way to answer this question is with data, not anecdote. And the people in this discussion thread are saying they don't trust the inflation data.

I trust the data, and the data shows their lives are better. If you don't trust the data, it's impossible to know.
> Many people take inflation as an immutable law of nature […]

Not in Japan. They've had stagnant prices and wages for a few decades now (though seems to be changing just recently):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYv-rk4v9Y
Good things last if somebody makes an effort to let them continue.

This as well may be you, dear reader.

If you see any content you seem to care about, make a local copy. Yours may happen to be the only remaining some time in the future.
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