skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Started to use a monorepo + worktrees to keep related but separated developments all together with different checkouts. Anybody else on the same path?
Stimulus spending CAUSES inflation. You are expanding the money supply. You want to reduce prices, then you need to cool off the economy and reduce the money supply.

Lowering govt spending PLUS raising taxes would have been the way.
Calling people "garbage" is unacceptable.

I fail to see how 'Trump does it' is supposed to be any kind of ethical argument.
This is an almost impossible post to respond to without it become a flame war.

But if anyone is curious about the idea that we have too many government bureaucrats, and whether this increases costs, I encourage them to read the findings of the Transit Costs Project. In looking deeply into why transit is so expensive in the US, they found that a major cost was that the US has too few bureaucrats, and instead has to hire extremely expensive consultants.

https://transitcosts.com/about/

This aligns with my understanding from friends/family members who work at state and county agencies: they are rarely able to provide the quality of service people want because they're severely understaffed, and are killing themselves in a sisyphean attempt to meet people's needs.
Many of us have, and that's how we know their stated reasons are just nonsense. There's a video of the creator interviewing a Trumper about how tariffs work....
Well, we don’t want prices to go down. That would be deflation, which is worse than inflation.
And if you don't trust Apple with your data you shouldn't use a phone or internet at all.

Because as someone who has worked at a few telcos I can assure you that your phone and triangulated location data is stored, analysed and provided to intelligence agencies. And likewise this would be applying to ISPs.
Why do you say that? Their solution of using shared memory (structured as a ring buffer) sounds perfect for their use case. Bonus points for using Rust to do it. How would you do it?

Edit: I guess perhaps you're saying that they don't know all the networking configuration knobs they could exercise, and that's probably true. However, they landed on a more optimal solution that avoided networking altogether, so they no longer had any need to research network configuration. I'd say they made the right choice.
I would pay money, $1+ postage to maybe $5 + postage to physically print out tweet streams and other articles and mail them to some old people I know.

I'm thinking specifically of DieWorkwear on twitter, but others too.
Honestly I think a big issue is that it’s not just legacy code, it’s also legacy code which depends on old dependency versions. Eg there’s an internal app where I work stuck on 3.8.X because it uses deprecated pandas syntax and is too complicated to rewrite for a newer version easily.
Graviton has weaker memory ordering than amd64. I know this because FreeBSD had a ring buffer which was buggy on Graviton...
The EU begrudgingly gives assistance to Ukraine, because the US forces them to
Trump's a pretty singular personality. He floods the zone with bullshit and denigrates vast swathes of the electorate. His insane ramblings are just considered by his adherents to be part of his allure and mystique. The American people can't seem to get enough of it, presumably because they so strongly identify with his character.

I have no love for Democrats but it's unclear to me that there's really anything they could have done. The common wisdom in the past had been that Trump is some kind of liability for Republicans, but at every turn he has been underestimated and I question that assumption.

To me Trump looks like a true master of his craft, and there is no line of carefully triangulated messaging that will resonate more with typical Americans than his stream of vitriol and lies.
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Gamers in general are not looking at Apple's chips.
I'm almost certain he would have.
Please list them because right now it is a hugely costly project that has shown no significant capital advancement for society beyond propping up Elon Musk and a “someday the average man will walk on the moon” dream. If anything of capital gain comes from it, it will never actually benefit the financial bottom line of the middle and lower class.
I think the issue with compression is that they're scraping the online meeting services rather than actually reverse engineering them, so the compressed video stream is hidden inside some kind of black box.

I'm pretty sure that feeding the browser an emulated hardware decoder (ie - write a VAAPI module that just copies compressed frame data for you) would be a good semi-universal solution to this, since I don't think most video chat solutions use DRM like Widevine, but it's not as universal as dumping the framebuffer output off of a browser session.

They could also of course one-off reverse each meeting service to get at the backing stream.

What's odd to me is that even with this frame buffer approach, why would you not just recompress the video at the edge? You could even do it in Javascript with WebCodecs if that was the layer you were living at. Even semi-expensive compression on a modern CPU is going to be way cheaper than copying raw video frames, even just in terms of CPU instruction throughput vs memory bandwidth with shared memory.

It's easy to cast stones, but this is a weird architecture and making this blog post about the "solution" is even stranger to me.
The UK outside London is IIRC poorer than all but one US state, and your housing policy makes it even harder to build new housing than California.

So you have much bigger problems. For there to be jobs there has to be industry first. That'd provide the demand.
> Democrats, despite winning the popular vote in all but 2 elections since 1988, are pretty much completely out of power

This shit pisses me off so much. Why can't they play by the same rules? The supreme irony is, if Dems were willing to occasionally fight dirty/play to win as well, at least when they still had some power, it would have likely forced Republicans to try to govern well occasionally rather than simply always playing to win.
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Counting votes for days/weeks. No ID laws. States not allowing pre-counting votes. States not allowing early voting. Having to wait 7 hours to vote at some polling locations vs 10 minutes at others. Allowing some forms of state agency issued ID to vote but not others.

I'm sure everyone from every side can come up with their own list. How about we solve it all once and for all.
You responded to a statement about change by talking about state. Both things are true: that average people have it better and that they have it hard.
I don't game nearly as much anymore but my understanding is that Nintendo may be the last console maker to regularly produce physical games. Newest Xbox doesn't even have an optical disk drive, I believe?

Nintendo also seems to be the least price gouge-y, in terms of lootboxes and microtransactions and other bullshit. Now I wish that didn't come with the tradeoff of them being completely anal when it comes to people posting OSTs online but I guess I'll take it.
> Can I smile in my passport photo?

> Yes. Make sure your eyes are open and your mouth is closed in your photo.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...
They elected a giant idiot who lives in his own, broken world. No one needs the media to tell them what to think, they can just listen to him for half a minute. Hes a joke, and he makes the US a joke that they put him in power. Again.
I think it's more accurate to say it became a "premium". I could probably find some live music at a rinky dink mom-and-pop cafe in a far out suburb even as late as the 90's if I tried.

By now, that prestige of a live music seems to only really come from a bigger joint, or as more of a passion project than as an expected way to get customers in.

>Have small towns really lost all their theatres?

It's mostly a thing regulated to colleges. So it will depend on that. I haven't seen a smaller town without a college that still has traditional theatre around, personally. Though I have seen forums where that scene would obviously have hosted such events, abandoned.
Was there a time when it was common to have just one song on the media you bought?
We've seen countless examples of relatively minor libraries being exploited which then cause havoc because of a spider web of transitive dependencies.
Yay, someone posted it before I had to. This skit is 25 years old now!
> insofar as modern GPUs exist, the will exists, insofar as trillions of dollars of investment flood into the space

Funny thing. I expect deep learning to have a really bad next decade, people betting on it to see quick bad results, and maybe it even disappear from the visible economy for a while exactly because there have been hundreds of billions of dollars invested.

What is no fault of the technology, that I expect to have some usefulness on the long term. I expect a really bad reaction to it coming exclusively from the excessive hype.
Apple silicon manages around 50% (giver or take) for the CPUs.
An sizeable number of people get confused and call it "ChatGTP": enough that you can search "ChatGTP" and find pages of posts and articles misnaming it

An initialism is not exactly an amazing name for a consumer product.
How do you reconcile "short sighted single issue greed for the mighty dollar" with "poor" and staying that way?
Because those discussions go like this:

(to a C programmer) "Why are you using C?"

"Because it's memory-safe."

"But it's not memory-safe."

"Yes it is. Your program will just segfault rather than getting hacked."

"No it won't... see these examples of C programs getting hacked without segfaulting."

"You're using it wrong. See look, if you write with spaces instead of tabs, your program is memory-safe."

Do you remember "MongoDB is web scale"? Would you not get angry when trying to find good reasons to use MongoDB? That's what it's like talking to the average Trump supporter, except it's about the removal of human rights instead of just which database you should use.
It was very much a decision between drinking curdled milk and drinking bleach.
it sounds like price gouging to me. The venue is more than doubling its price and charging you $14 for a can of beer. How is this Biden's fault, of all things?

Anyway, I'm relatively cheap so I always pay attention to prices. Eggs, milk, bread, chicken, etc have all gotten slightly more expensive. Nothing even close to double. I don't understand what people are buying.
Why do you think that are so many willing to work for pennies, instead of changing profession? Or so many willing to pick a profession that is known beforehand to usually have low wages?
Update:

In an interesting twist "American Indians" showed 65% support for Trump! That kind of damages the 'muh racist' narrative too.

Oh and 'Latino's are exceeding the 45% projection at least a bit, so even closer to a 'tie' sitting at 46% currently.

This is per NBC, who tend to lean left:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls
Fair point about the trend, yes. And thanks for pointing out that Harris actually made gains with Boomers; I've verified that and updated my mental model.
> It is the cost of the goods. What people will pay.

No. Even in the modern definition I'm arguing against here, this isn't right. The cost of goods is just a number, inflation in the CPI sense would be the rate of change of prices.

> Inflation Contributors:

30% money supply

30% was corporations raised prices specifically under cover of people blaming the government. This was actually listed on earnings calls, for profit.

30% supply chain shortages.

Where's the last 10%? And how do you come up with such specific numbers? Economies are extremely complex, I don't believe you could have untangled them so precisely or that the numbers behind it would be so evenly distributed.
Well, basketball courts have a ~12m diameter 3-point line, and the inside of a starship is ~9m. Swimming pools are mostly rectangular from the outside observer's perspective.
The Harris campaign spent more money directly, but the GOP had quite a lot more 527 funding. This is typical of modern elections.
The town I live in has 6000 people and there's a play or live music event in the town hall every couple of weeks, maybe more often in summer. I don't go to many, one or two a year, but presumably enough people turn out.
I see you. My wife has bpd. It's such a hard condition to explain, and most people in my life (even my loved ones) are so far removed from the experience it sometimes feels like I am talking about my experience visiting another planet. And this is from people that love me and are trying to support.

Couple that with the "top 10 tips" as you said and it's just soul-crushing.

Thankfully I have finally found some people who are in similar situations and even the feeling of being seen brings so much relief.
As a counter point, almost all of the Trump decision was "made up." Especially all of the stuff about admissibility of evidence is whole cloth law.
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> That's 48 cores

That's not dedicated 48 cores, it's 48 "vCPUs". There are probably 1,000 other EC2 instances running on those cores stealing all the CPU cycles. You might get 4 cores of actual compute throughput. Which is what I was saying
OpenAI bought the web domain Chat.com
Then YOU are not to be taken seriously.
Wasn't that the alleged reason for continued escalations in Germany in the 40s?
Great! I feel good watching women and men doing all the jobs and sports they can do, regardless of gender.
Even he’s on the Trump train now.
This is what a lot of us here on HN see. The site guidelines say no snark and our comments get flagged but this whole snark is ignored and elevated.

Maybe it won't be a snakes ate my face moment. Trump is hardly an unknown. People voted for 2016-2020. That's what they want. No snark needed
Same in the US. Especially in the party that now lost. Maybe believing in some equality fairyland where everything is fair and equal doesn’t work. Doesn’t work for the US and doesn’t work for Germany. You need to let crazy people do crazy things (within the law of course). Many inventors were “crazy” at the time including Einstein, Turing and DaVinci to name a few. Maybe in 50 years we will talk about the government that forced Turing to take medication against his homosexuality in the same way as the woke politicians who supported cancel culture. A culture that has caused many academics to lose their job and caused even more academics to fear speaking up.

Germany is in a really dire situation now by the way. Car production is about 17% of GDP and sales for all their brands are declining steadily. Especially Chinese sales are going down fast. Relatedly, Xiami is now one of the fastest cars on the Nordschleife. But the German government doesn’t seem to have any solutions. Yes close power plants. Oh wait they have now the highest electricity prices in the whole of Europe.

And this is while their education system is fine. Young German engineers are great I think. I’ve seen many great German open source developers. Especially of course the creators of Typst.
It's unsettling how the Turing Test turned out to be so independent of AGI, isn't it?
It’s odd, last time I went to the US they barely glanced at my photo
There's a valid question to be asked about why the government allows union contracts that seem tailor-made to keep people who don't want to work hard (by making it impossible to get fired and underpaying people) while encouraging young, ambitious folks to leave, where they can be promoted more easily and aren't managed by less competent administrators.

But "just get rid of 80% of the bureaucrats" isn't how you start that conversation.
> “Will this be one of the historical once every 70 years administrations? I’ll know it is if the government budget is cut by over 50%.”

Did the author even bother to look how the US federal budget is spent?

Social Security, Medicare and defense account for 54% and Trump has promised not to cut these.

11% is spent on interest payments, and since Trump will cut taxes and thus reduce federal income, the government will have to keep borrowing and keep paying even more interest.

Maybe he could cut the 18% of the budget that goes to the states? Oh, but those are mostly benefiting red states. Hmm.

No biggie. I’m sure Elon Musk will figure this out in an afternoon while tweeting and playing Diablo in the White House.
It's not scary, it's part of the value proposition.

I used to work for a company that rented lots of hetzner boxes. Consumer grade hardware with frequent disk failures was just what we excepted for saving a buck.
I think a lot of people fall into this trap of searching for the ultimate person or agency that is accountable, be it Illuminati, the Rockefellers or a deep state of some kind. The reality, that it’s all chaotic, that there are a lot of people with their own agenda, that nobody controls it all from the top, and it all ends up as a never-ending struggle of incomprehensible dimensions, that is too scary a thought for many, even very intelligent people.
I completely agree, which is why I have been arguing all along that it is the disconnect between that lived reality and the way Democrats have been messaging that got in Harris' way.
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The most recent opportunity was 20 years ago when the housing market crashed. It did work, Democrats got 60 seats in the Senate.

Nothing since that time has really affected the Red states fiscally.
"Codependent no more" - Melanie Beattie. Changed my life.
Just out of (actual) curiosity: is the culture divide now strong enough that dissolution of the Union is a possibility? If so, why? If not, why not?
> I think that voter ID laws are probably fine. I'm in a state that has them, and I suspect that I would feel weird if the requirement were repealed.

> I don't know if IDs are free in all states, but if they are, I would be more inclined to support it as a requirement for voting.

The IDs being free is good, but not sufficient. The ID issuing organization also must be funded sufficiently to provide comprehensive access to ID-related services to all citizens, regardless of disability, population density, cost of provision, etc.
Yup all my comments offering to explain and explaining have been flagged. Even ones with no sarcasm. Just because waiting for someone to doxx me again and dang to do nothing.
>they will not take that poorly paying weekly gig and spend a year or two refining their performance and learning to read the audience which is a major part of making it in music.

they literally cannot afford to do such things unless they are already homeless. It could have been an okay side hustle as recent as a decade ago. But today you're not gonna do much more than grab grocery money without being in a very specific scene. That meal you mention can easily cost as much as what they were paid for the gig.

It's been declining for decades, no doubt. But when the economy starts getting hard, "passion projects" dry up. being paid $100 a week is much closer to a passion project than a side hustle at this point.
The counterpoint being public-servant-rich economies that stagnate and turn inwards, connecting with intrigue and politics instead of their job(Latin American Brasil and Argentina). Plus feedback mechanisms for issues of state management are incredibly crude and act at a very far away point, through the president or legislator of a nation.
Same here, I'm quite a bit younger but my living situation and finances are also determined by taking care of my elderly parents. It's a lot different culturally than my surrounding peers who either don't have parents as old or don't bother to care for them in the same way.

It changes who I can spend time with and what I can do, and required me to grow up a lot faster than it seems like those around me. I didn't have the same amount inviting random people over, hosting house parties, or going out for drinks the same way, which I sometimes wish I got to do more of. But we play the cards we are dealt and try to do the most right for ourselves and the people around us I guess!
Well, many believe that Europe is falling so much behind US and China in areas such as economy, technology, innovation that it basically is just a tourist destination at this point, with no power or relevance in shaping the world's future.
You're just parroting the same thing again and again without providing any evidence. For a start, the amount of money in circulation is an unobservable quantity. It's extremely unlikely that the Romans had a word for it.
Let Claude control your computer (at your own risk)
Look at monthly border patrol contacts with people crossing the border illegally. About 55k/mo recently with much higher numbers in 2023.
Perhaps - but Jetbrains pulled in over $400MM USD in revenue in 2021[1]. Jetbrains now even offers a Rust IDE.

Besides - what were Mozilla's actual goals? Find ways to not make money?

People would throw money at a competent, coherent, privacy-centric, non-Microsoft collaborative office suite. Mozilla had Thunderbird, messaging apps, file sharing apps, etc - and somehow never got organized enough to form a single coherent strategy that would make money. Instead they were all one-off half-baked products that were DOA.

It's dumbfounding. GSuite did so well because it's not Microsoft. Today we have many offerings, from Zimbra to Zoho and more - just imagine what someone with Mozilla's reputation and morals could have done for SMB's in this space, before anyone else moved?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains
Certainly Trump will reduce our grocery prices. He has a plan to introduce a lot of tariffs to accomplish this.
> "App" does not rhyme with "Up".

It does if you're from Boston.
To be generous I will assume you just haven't seen enough of her.

This is just one of dozens of examples that have convinced me personally that she's legitimately not the brightest lightbulb out there:

https://x.com/Sansa314159/status/1854196650178175101
People have short memories, but the last time Trump was in office you had to hear about him all the time. (Of course the real concerning trend is that every recent R administration ends in an economic collapse.)
Man the tiktokification of alex g absolutely blows. Same with mitski, unbearable live shows now. It is a bit difficult for me to be mad about it though because at the end of the day the complaint just boils down to being mad that these artists have become more popular, pop sets have always been like this. More popular = more money for them which cheers me up a bit
What did democrats do to improve the education system?
He interned at Twitter for a few weeks so he's pretty much an expert
Not trying? It was all the media did for like 2017 through 2018. “Venture safari-style among the rural or flyover-state-suburban white“ was practically its own genre, and it was everywhere. You couldn’t turn on NPR without hearing a devout rural white Christian relate how they prayed on it then held their nose and voted for the unrepentant sinner because of abortion. It’s why Vance’s weird, insulting book was embraced by the Left(!) as “real talk” from an actual member of the group they were trying to understand.
yes, got me there.

but i feel in the context (communication/meta-data inference) that is missing the trees for the forest
The entire 45rpm era, from the 1950s to the early 1970s! It’s why they’re called “singles”! And also iTunes, so from about 2005 to 2010.
They also have broad support in the US, but once a policy gets the socialism word attached to it it loses popularity.

For example, the ACA is very popular. Obamacare is not. It's all about the messaging.