skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking the time to argue with me. You make some good points, however, for me personally, the evidence seems insufficient to sway me into believing that a deflationary currency is not beneficial.

I agree with your arguments about why some inflation is desired, it incentivizes people into spending their money, this makes it so that people engage in trade more often and, when voluntarily made on the basis of sound information, trade is beneficial to both parties. The net positive done in the world increases, at the small cost of some inflation, that is, the loss of some of your net worth if you rest on your laurels keeping your cash.

All this being said, for me there is a great asymmetry in the demonstrable harm done by inflation vs deflation. The list of people who have suffered the consequences of irresponsible governments is just too large, with you and me being at risk of suffering from them during our lifetime. The temptation is just too large to mishandle currency. While deflation is something that we will very hardly experience in our lifetime, barring some massive technological breakthrough that changes the means of production forever.

Moreover, there's no reason to believe that an economy can't work with deflation. Believe me, it CAN work with extreme inflation where calculation into the future is made very hard, it can surely work with deflation. Yes, some psychological aspects will be new, like people holding off purchases because their money will be worth more in the future, but that will not necessarily translate into a wide-scale halt in purchases. People will still want things more right now than the equivalent of their increasingly valuable currency. This new modality will introduce problems, no doubt, but these will be overcome by new adaptations. There is simply not enough evidence to ensure that a system like this can't work.

I agree that one ought to proceed with care in these matters because a system that seems to work in the beginning might fail catastrophically later on. However, as any change, one ought to weigh the negative risks against the benefits. With the promise of cryptocurrency we're entering a new world. One in which each individual will be more empowered and global commerce will be facilitated. The complexity of the world shows us that no matter how much optimism or pessimism you bake into your decisions, for some things, you will just never know for sure.

Lastly, another problem with inflation is that it favors the elites. Possibly, this is one of the biggest reasons why it's so widely disseminated. Those close to the central banks, those that understand about finance, those that seek power for themselves at the expense of others, among others. This kind of centralization of power motivates individuals at the top to sell the idea to the masses as if it's for their own good, and sometimes it is, but you can't deny that the incentives do not point to this being something that overwhelmingly favors the disenfranchised and the ignorant.
> the extremes are not aware that they are on the fringe. They believe that their ideology is widely shared and common amongst everyone.

Yeah. I think the way to counteract this is for moderates to speak up against the extremists, including the extremists on their own side.

For example, Biden criticized the extreme left in the summer 2020 protests: https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/we-are-a-nation-furious-at-inju...

> Protesting [police] brutality is right and necessary. It’s an utterly American response. But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not.

We need more of that from our politicians. When Republicans are willing to criticize Trump, I respect them enormously for it; but few Republicans are willing to publicly disagree with Trump.
Politician?
TWTR -- the publicly traded company -- dipped so badly that Musk needed to make it private. It's effectively less of a public commons now than it is Musk's investment on manipulating information.
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> Everything you have listed could be solved with money.

No that's actually not true. Government jobs are soul crushing. The way the bureaucracy works, its all about social standing, politics, and seniority. In these jobs you trade your sanity for money, and they have a long reputation for being just like this which is why few ever apply.

No reasonably average intelligence person is going to do that unless they are absolutely desperate. Its a dead end job.
What things that were previously done in assembly do you mean?

I remember Delphi nicely allowed including C++ files and assembly in the project too, so there's that. It is a very wordy language, but apart from the need to separate declarations and implementation, was pretty nice to use, and powerful.
You are just wrong here. You misread my comment. The “them” in my 3rd paragraph refers to the paused payments. If it turns out that what congress appropriated funds for is actually fraud, congress will want to know, and can amend that spending retroactive to this fiscal year. How is this controversial to you?

Elon Musk was hand picked by the president to do this job. Clearly you do not like the president nor Elon but that is a personal view not held by a majority of voters in the last election.
apparently DHL is not accepting parcels from Hong Kong to US: https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/22675...

not sure about other carriers but that doesn’t sound good
The problem is that the company is named Hydraulic, but it only has one product, so it's confused branding. I think a lot of startups make this mistake so I don't beat myself up about it too much. The product has a different name to the company, but it's the product name people know, and so then they have to realign the branding around that - something I've never done.

For better or worse there are enough users and customers (it's free for open source devs), that fixing problems and addressing feature requests/support tickets tends to suck up the available time. I still live in hope that one day I will drain the high priority queue enough to be able to reorganize the docs and redo the web presence.
But those aren’t real research anyway /s
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Accusation of genocide is simply ridiculous considering this was without question an entirely defensive war against an enemy Hamas who wanted to commit the same atrocity repeatedly and embedded itself in civilians. International law as it exists today in allows civilian infrastructure to be targeted when it is used for military means, and each and every Israeli strike had to be approved by its legal team and were proceeded by warnings in the many situations when the military value would not be lost by pre-warning.

Having consumed far too much content and arguments throughout the past 16 months I have not once seen those that accuse Israel of war crimes being able to suggest and effective and reasonable alternative way to uproot the hamas threat (and suggesting that the two state solution which has remained elusive for 75 years and in the context of October the 7th would reward terrorism, is not a reasonable suggestion to an immediate threat)
Thanks for the reply! Makes sense. I will definitely keep this in mind. Much appreciated.
If you go back far enough, you'll realize both groups are of the same ethnicity. It's just that they converted to Christianity and Islam and, as a result, a few hundred years later, we now call them Palestinians.
By helping to make them qualified to pass the tests.
"The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”"
It's about spending your balance too. They will block transactions if they think there's a high risk of the transaction triggering a chargeback complaint, if they think the recipient might be sanctioned, if they aren't sure if the card was cloned etc.
>It’s been over 2 years and on a technical level running better than ever.

Ask the worker's how they are doing, and then maybe I'll be convinced that it's "running better". When you grind 10x the users into the dirt, you can make up for cutting 90% of your staff. For a while. Especially in a crap economy like this where job hopping is harder.

I also agree that most of the cuts may have been managerial and logistics. It's probably a clown circus trying to do anything more than maintain.

I agree only on a surface level that it looks better. But old tech dies very hard. Digg is technically still up today. Myspace is technically still up today. hell, 4chan is still arguably bustling.
The US has transcended “both sides are bad” sorry mate. Elon is evil, full stop.
> All the other messenger apps you can use on iOS, like whatsapp, telegram, signal, etc, have no degradation with android users present

Yes, those all work and each require that you download and install their app, go through setup, potentially some identity verification steps, etc.

If you want that functionality, all of them are available as options.

What would make an Apple iMessage app for Android better than any of them? Unlike today, Android users would have the same experience for any of these other apps - completely excluded from conversations until everyone agrees upon an app, downloads it, creates an account and exchanges whatever addresses, nicknames or QR codes necessary to join a group.

The only thing that an Apple iMessage app buys the group is a better experience for the _Apple_ users. It actually increases lock-in to Apple's services, both because now Android users are signing up for Apple services to to communicate with their groups, and because Apple users know they can just reject other options because the Android people can "make iMessage work".
What search engine do you use?
It is changed, not removed. This time is removed. Honestly, I don't get your point. Mind your words jesus
No, what you should takeaway is that misoverusing the term Nazi as an insult patently no longer works precisely because noone cares about being called a Nazi anymore due to its misoveruse.

In a different timeline, Trump being called a Nazi or any of the vicinity terms should have been an immediate termination of his campaign chances.

What actually happened is Trump ignored it (as he should) and the American people shrugged "OK" and went to vote for him with complete disregard.

Then Musk got called a Nazi at the inauguration, and the American people shrugged "OK" and went back to facepalming at just how much sheer waste the government has with complete disregard.

The moral you should take away is you should not invoke Godwin's Law. It's probably too late for "Nazi", "racism", "sexism", and a host of other insults the Left have thrown around to see what sticks (none have), but that doesn't mean future originally-valuable-terminology have to face the same fate.

Another moral is that insulting Americans probably doesn't actually work in general. "Deplorables", "Garbage", and others were turned around into rallying cries during the 2016 and 2024 campaigns, not unlike the original meaning behind the term "Yankee" which was originally an insult not unlike "Kraut" or "Jap" but is now one of the fondest nicknames of Americans.
No, it’s not “quite clear” as the link provided described.

Any impoundment authority and how it has been curtailed is purely a political solution, not a constitutional one.

If the Democrats think they are right they can go to the Supreme Court to force him to spend money with no say in the matter.

And while the President is mandated to execute the law you’re forgetting how much of the government is not described in law. USAID “to further the mission of the US in foreign countries” would give the President a lot of latitude in how that money is spent. A lot.

Then layer on the immense agency structure written all through “interpretation” of the law that the agencies no longer can rely on Chevron to defend and things get really interesting.

And while the Supreme Court did rule on Empoundment law curtailing Nixon, it did not rule specifically on the constitutionality of it and a lot has changed on the Supreme Court since Nixon.

So please don’t respond with “doesnt have the constitutional authority” when that is most definitely not the case.
That's a big reason for me too; when I remember when DuckDuckGo blocked "tank Man" a couple years ago, at that point that I considered DDG compromised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925

I get a lot out of their regex redirect for their search results, notably redirecting reddit to old.reddit -- a lifesaver when searching on mobile.
Awesome Kagi, always the awesome Kagi.
1. I am paying far more attention throughout than you and have always been instead of just when it's politically convenient.

2. Oh no! Pray god I'm not an active supporter! Imagine if there was someone with "republican/commie/<insert political blacklist> leanings". The horror!

I don't think you guys are getting it.

All you can do is accuse people of "being the enemy" and you just lost a democratic election and keep doubling down.

How about some reflection? How about internal analysis around consistency of political views instead of pure partisanship?
Ask Hawaii what happened when a bunch of businessmen wanted more profits and less government oversight! Back then it was Dole (the PERSON) and sugarcane companies, today it is auto manufacturers and probably access to the northern sea route that is rapidly becoming de-iced and relevant for shipping to bypass the Panama Canal. Canada better take this threat seriously and treat the USA, at the very least, like a neighbor who is shooting a rifle at a massive tank of propane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Constitution_of_the_Hawai...
> Why? I'm used to \ meaning lambda.

1. I know what lambda calculus is, and I didn't even make the connection between \ and lambda. It's pretty tenuous.

2. Most programmers do not know what lambda calculus is. This is supposed to be a friendly language, not an obscure academic one.

3. It's not even the same lambda as in lambda calculus, e.g. it takes multiple arguments.

4. Lambda was a reasonable choice in lambda calculus since it's a very "mathsy" language, and it's pretty much the only symbol in the language. It's a pretty awful choice for a practical programming language though - there's a reason 99% of languages use something like `fn` or `fun` or `function` or `def` instead of lambda to define top-level functions.

I'm not a huge fan of `|foo|` either to be honest - I don't see why you can't simply use the same syntax for anonymous and named functions - but it is at least a little better.

If it were up to me I'd go with something like

fn double(a: list[int]) -> list[int] {
a.map(fn(i) { i * 2 })
}

Same syntax; just allow omitting the name and inferring the types. I can't recall any languages that do that though so maybe there's some tricky reason it can't work?
Yeah, that would be stupid. I was thinking one order of magnitude less in terms of effort. If you can make a prototype in a day, it might deliver way more value than 3x 60 minute meetings. If you can make it in a week, where the proper implementation would take more than a month, that could still be a huge win.

I see this not as opposed, but as part of requirements analysis/review - working in the abstract, with imagination and prose and diagrams, it's too easy to make invalid assumptions without anyone realizing it.
Google the word “aww”.
EU should do the same. They're essentially performing a Bureaucratic Denial-of-Service attack on customs and tax authorities.
This makes it all the more nice that EU banned AI for use cases like these.
Looking like it will go down this time! Isn’t that what everyone seems to be complaining about in this comment section?
I will sign back up for a paid service when funding Russian search engine Yandex is dropped. Many like to forget there is a war.
They brought up bankers and lawyers in response to someone asking "Which very highly paid job does not command respect in society? I can’t think of any"

So yes it is irrelevant in the specific context of that sub-conversation. Which isn't to say that your point arguing why that might not be applicable to ATCs isn't also a relevant thing to say to being the conversation back to the main topic of this thread.
In no particular order: Pinning results. Blocking Pinterest, the top few results aren’t spam. They are interesting.
Yes let's call a spade a spade, it's a coup.

Trump is passing as much stuff as quickly as he can to bypass the separation of powers while they catch up.
> That is for the old 910B which was fabbed on TSMC. The rumors I have seen is that 910C is a chiplet design.

Yes.

As written, the (Virtuvian) AI processor CHIPLET of Ascend 910 with TSMC N7+ process has a size of 456.25mm², >4x larger than the whole Kirin SoC.

Rumor is that 910C was aimed to not redesign them significantly compared to the 910B iteration but double the amount of those AI chiplets in one package.

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> What you can do is look at objective indicators such as what gets sold (phones, computers) where (China, outside China). And prices and availability of Chinese cloud computing and AI products.

The size of the chiplet in the comparable TSMC N7+ process is objectively known, the size of the Kirin 9000s SoC die is objectively known.

Those are good indicators that the commercial volume of the mass-produced die (Kirin) doesn't tell you much about the potential yield for the 4x larger AI-chiplet (Ascend 910 Virtuvian)
I'm sympathetic to the points being made but the argument that Oracle does not have its own JavaScript runtime does not hold.
An OracleBD is able to execute triggers written in JavaScript since quite some time.

see https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/multilingual-engine-execu...
> However, if we can get Greenland and the Panama Canal amicably through business/diplomacy then, as an American, why not?

was there anything amicable about his recent claims about greenland ?

How do you reconcile having a leader suggesting curing covid with bleach to know how to make government efficients ? Musk couldn't turn twitter back as far as we know either..
> there exists a subset of the population that cannot and will not be educated or have the ability to reason on a certain level to make things work.

I have absolutely no evidence to support this (but I would welcome any for or against it), but I have a loose theory that there is pretty much always a subset of people who are physiologically predisposed to be driven by a fear response more than the average person, and over time they congregate, possibly as a safety mechanism.
There is simply no incentive for such behavior. The person always hopes for the best (the hot guy will choose me over all those who like him). And what about the worst case? Sex with hot guys? Sounds like a very solid strategy to me.
It is #4.

Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and defense are larger.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
This also applies to doctors and any stressful job really. Long hours compound the stress problems, making the job really unattractive.
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
Interesting, did you pivot / change the target market? $5 sounds more like a consumer product but $50k likely isn't (unless you literally progressed from skateboards to cars like every Agile cartoon wants to make us believe)...

Among other things, I'm working on an elephant hunter type product. Took us five months, but the first invoices were $7k, $3k and now $45k but that doesn't prove much yet.
WWSD?

(What would Smiley do? Or Jackson Lamb, for that matter.)
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For long-term relationships, yes. For the people that exclusively use them for hookups and similar, those will "always" be there.
Just like the day the price of housing and bitcoin will crash. It’ll be here any day now I’m sure!
Point to be noted is that Rudolf Hoss wasn't the leader of a random Nazi camp. He was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people were murdered, making him one of the biggest mass-murderer of the last century.
Or he's somewhere where enabling audio is not an option.
So, there's a difference between how problems are common, how many of them are there, and how hard it is to deal with them.

So, is it possible to deal with Perforce marking files read-only? -- Yes. And it's not complicated, but the whole idea that that how the system should work is stupid. The problem is, however, exceptionally common. In my days working with Perforce there hadn't been a day when this problem didn't rear its ugly head.

So, maybe Perforce is scoring better on some metric, but in the day-to-day it generates so much hatred towards itself that I don't care if it can handle big files better than Git does. I only need to handle big files maybe a few times a year. And I prefer to get frustrated only twice or three times a year than to be fuming every time I have to touch files in my project.
I don’t have an uncle orange. You must have me confused with somebody else.
Sounds interesting, what stops you from (re-)launching it?
They only time I've seen a beaver hat was in old times comics with Davy Crockett (fun times)... when was that European fashion craze?
Wasn't the housing crisis mostly the Chinese middle class trying to secure their savings from inflation by investing in real state?
You cannot use yourself as an argument about the productivity of Rust, you designed this language!

Joke aside, the velocity of the Bevy Engine as a whole is indeed a testament to Rust productivity.

Last year I had two groups of students who built a multiplayer FPS and a Tower defense respectively after just one and a half days of Rust class so the learning curve is clearly not as bad as people like to tell on HN.
I am not arguing for or against size of the government, nor I am arguing long term strategies, I am saying that ripping out wellfare programs is a rugpull on a lot of people
Nobody starts by dropping quarter of a mil, you start by dropping $1k and being very frugal, releasing something minimal, seeing how it behaves, and once you have some actual data to work with, you pivot again and again and again.

It's always a huge money sinkohole until it isn't.
> complete with nets so they don't leap to their deaths.

These nets are everywhere here. In the our other building's (which is an R&D facility where nobody is a modern day slave by your definition) stair well, construction sites, bridges, etc.

I saw it all over Europe in buildings, bridges, etc.
But many iPhones are made in India and Vietnam.
I think C# has first class functions. Any pure function you can pass around. And you can create lambdas.

gcc has nested functions that can act like a closure.

And Clang has blocks.
According to my usage statistics, I use Kagi around 20-50 times a day.

Date (UTC) AI Tokens Searches
Feb 5, 2025 0 64
Feb 4, 2025 0 43
Feb 3, 2025 0 19
Feb 2, 2025 0 24
Feb 1, 2025 0 19

They don't seem to track any form of history, only the number of searches (since some of their plans have a quota). I pay for unlimited searches, but the stats are still interesting :)
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