jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Based on historical data, if you buy 1000 random stocks or bonds at a random time, in ten years you’ll have made money - on dividends and value appreciation.

If you buy 1000 random collectibles at a random time, in ten years you’ll have lost most of your money.
Which is the equivalent of getting an external VCR to the TV with an embedded one. Different tech, similar problem, similar solution.
> If you provide an unseen tweet to the chain, you get TWITCOIN

How does the chain "know" that the tweet you just provided is legitimate and not spam you just made up? Malicious actors can quickly exploit this to farm endless amounts of the coin as it is cheaper than searching for true tweets that haven't yet been seen.

Furthermore if your objective is just to pay people to join your site then I don't see the need for a bullshitchain.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18828531 and marked it off-topic.
Roq sounds like a great name.
CPI probably doesn't reflect inflation the way Fed looks at it. They use PCE[1]:

>An accurate measure of inflation is important for both the U.S. federal government and the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), but they focus on different measures. For example, the federal government uses the CPI to make inflation adjustments to certain kinds of benefits, such as Social Security.[3] In contrast, the FOMC focuses on PCE inflation in its quarterly economic projections and also states its longer-run inflation goal in terms of headline PCE.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/j...
Maybe, but if you're in the over $72k category (I guess the article is from 2019 and the threshold has changed) it's literally just electronic versions of the paper forms which I consider a huge waste of my time and mental energy. Intuit doesn't charge you _and_ make you do the work. Intuit charges you _instead_ of making you do the work, just like you'd pay an accountant for. The IRS doesn't even offer guidance on which forms you need.

> If you choose Free File Fillable Forms as your Free File option, you should be comfortable doing your own taxes. Limitations with Free File Fillable Forms include:

> It won't give you guidance about which forms to use or help with your tax situation

> It only performs basic calculations and doesn't provide extensive error checking

> It will only file your federal return for the current tax year

> No state tax return option is available

I don't want to "do my own taxes". That's the whole point of paying for a service that makes it easier. And also it's not even available right now:

> Free File Fillable Forms reopens Feb. 12, 2021 at noon ET.
Housing, healthcare, education and childcare costs matter. I don’t believe CPI is accurately capturing the skyrocketing costs of these things, which are the most significant expenses for most households.
...and US state governments.
I know many such cases as well. Unfortunately it's hard to prove discrimination and the laws are not in favor of the employee in most states. So apart from a news coverage like this article, I doubt much comes out of these lawsuits. Seems futile to pursue.
Another key takeaway I think is that we're just returning to the norm. The middle to late 20th century was an outlier thanks to the World Wars and all the destruction in Europe that happened because of them.
Yeah, it felt a bit like me (a software developer) recommending to someone to use Google Cloud for their blog infrastructure rather than some basic one-size-fits-most solution that may or may not meet their needs forever.

These people come from civil engineering backgrounds where air filtration requirements might often be thought of from an industrial or at least much larger than a domestic/micro loft scale.

Having any air filtration at all at a smaller scale is generally just great if you replace filters often enough, don't aren't near industry or aren't in a city, don't cook at home often... Even then, a smaller air purifier's going to do an awesome job if you let it run regularly.
My issue is the cost.

My local costco has these units in store for $800 USD. Further down the isle they have oscillating tower fans for $30, and smart air filters for $100. I bought two pairs of each before winter. The fans are quiet, have plenty of control options, and non-volatle memory so you can use them with smart plugs. The air purifiers are 4 stage, with active charcoal and a long life (6 mo, 20$) hepa filter. They are wifi enabled, monitor and log air quality, and controllable from a phone. The purifiers should filter my bedroom's air once every 10 minutes, and ~15 min for my living room. This was all under 300$.

Edit: to answer your question, the regular dyson fans are great. They quietly and efficiently move air. Pointing one at a real air filter should really help the filter do its job. My issue is that dyson built a small filter into their fans and doubled the price.
I think everyone is confused. Everyone just wants their slice of the pie (aka $$$).
They bought Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#History
Brutalist is frightening, it’s cold. It’s uncaring.

Whether you find that beautiful probably depends on how jaded you are. But it’s a matter of taste.
It sounds like the idea that it's a donation is the part where we fundamentally disagree then. If you expose an unpatched exploit and the number of people using that exploit goes up because of your publication then you've contributed to worsening the security landscape for whoever the relevant user is. If an exploit is years old, or if there's some other relevant context, then sure exposing a vulnerability mainly means that the parent company doesn't have to pay for the research. But it's not a favor they asked you to perform and if you have a competing product with that company then the question becomes "Why aren't you publishing more about yourself?" since surely no one is in a better position to do security research on your products than yourself or a contractor you hired. It's basically PR motivated research and when there's also a lack of transparency it leads to easy speculation that maybe you're holding back research on yourself purposefully or even simply not publishing the more damning research you discover about your own products.
Because making money is all that matters and any interference of that is bad? /s

I'm so tired of libertarian fairy tales.
I disagree respectfully. I had sat through and watched the Ford Mach-E reveal but this Tesla has practically made me forget that altogether.
Debatable, but it might

+ save some network bandwidth in case of a sufficiently large/complex document

- burn some extra energy client-side in case of a sufficiently large/complex document

+ allow some kind of interactive manipulation/modification by the reader
Every once in a while I'll catch myself trying to read web content in the tiny window between the sidebar ads, the floating video, the cookie control panel and the "other content you might like" block... and I'll stop, pull back, and ask myself, "how did computing get this BAD?"

Especially in the web context, I think it's as you say: the real product has little to do with the task you came to the site for, so everything is trying to distract you away from that task. The end experience is as if the people who used to run warez pages with 9 giant buttons to download dodgy IE toolbars and one 20px link to get the actual file grew up and got jobs running mainstream news sites.
Maybe that is what it is now,
but I still have muscle memory using it in Informix.
Just F2, but I had to get used to that already with my previous keyboard (Microsoft Sculpt). But I let all F keys bound to the Layer 2 as per the ZSA defaults.

And Alt + F4 is bound to a double tap of the right red thumb key :D
I've been using the same handle in some places for 26 years, wow. Started on BBS systems obviously. Notably it is not my handle on HN because it was taken.
This could be used in fingerprinting and user tracking. The more custom your environment is, the more you stand out from everybody else.
Wow, my typing speed has improved lately ...
it would be cool if you do ngram analysis that generates code based on keystrokes
Building things this way strikes me as expensive. At Netflix's scale, it pays off, but for systems that don't serve as many requests I'm forced to wonder whether just avoiding the cloud might be more cost-effective.
As well as being factually dubious, that didn't answer the question.
> So how do you explain everything that happened on the wealth inequality front from the 1970s up to the financial crisis of 2009?

Are you able to articulate why you believe "because Fed policy" doesn't apply as a valid argument for 1970 through 2009?
To me it's a pro-capitalist, pro-globalist, quasi-neo-colonialist ideology. It's meant to spread modernization through corporate capitalism [1].

I think the quintessential neo-liberal group is the Trilateral Commission [2], which many high audience mainstream media talking heads are members.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission
> Wealth inequality and social unrest in America is DIRECTLY related to corrupt and/or incompetent (you choose) Fed policies. It amazes me why most people do not grasp this. I think it is lack of education.

Who do you think is behind this. Jerome ain't going to lunch with you or me.
I'm not arguing all doctors and lawyers are in the top 1%, just a significant percentage of them. Your average specialist salary will get you very close to that threshold and being a specialist is not exactly a "capital owner who doesn't have to work".

To say that all top 1% are "capital owners who don't need to work" isn't accurate. There are plenty of wage earners in the top 1%.
> You're angry because it feels like everybody is getting rich and you aren't.

This is uncharitable. In fact most middle class folks who sign on to this frame are motivated by basic ideas like justice and fairness. Realistically policies designed to address wealth inequality are going to make very little difference to anyone here making a typical engineering salary.

It's easy to sign on to "a rising tide lifts all boats" when you hear it the first time. But after decades of waiting, the dinghies are just plain sunk at this point as the yachts are pulling out of the harbor. It's time to try something else.
No open air filter system interacts with more than a small volume of the air in a space!

So long as it cycles the air frequently enough, eventually it will capture particles proportional to its basic filtration capability.
> the zero-tax policy they themselves apply to corporation + laws that help in tax avoidance for corps with legal hq there.

There's no such zero-tax policy. There simply is the liquidatieverliesregeling, which allows you to subtract not-yet-subtracted losses from investments overseas from the profits in the HQ.

Shell is the common example. It has an HQ in the Netherlands, and many overseas investments. e.g. hundreds of places where it drills for oil in many different jurisdictions.

Suppose 9 of these of these do not find profitable oil and thus make a loss of $10 each, and 1 of these does find oil and makes a profit of $100. The total profit for Shell is $100-90 = $10. Corporate taxes only tax profits, that's true around the world.

However, because the 10 Shell entities are drilling for oil in 10 different jurisdictions, the one profitable company cannot deduct losses from other jurisdictions from its profits. Therefore the $100 is taxed at say 20%, so the income is $80. And the losses are still $90. So overal, worldwide Shell just made a $10 loss due to taxes, despite making a profit.

The Netherlands' tax regime simply states that if you have an HQ, you can deduct all those losses which you haven't been able to deduct before, from the profits of the HQ. That's in principle a fair form of taxation. Second, it doesn't benefit the Netherlands tax-wise, because it reduces the tax income in the Netherlands, while profits overseas are still taxed overseas and generate income for those local jurisdictions.

This idea that therefore the Netherlands has a zero-tax policy that's screwing other countries is nonsense. There are many other examples and discussions you can have about Dutch taxes creating issues overseas (the Netherlands is certainly not perfect), but the tax regime for corps with a legal HQ in the Netherlands isn't one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5s4taHrEWA
People who agree upvote and have nothing more to say, people who disagree come to post their objections.
I wrote a bit about this here, with some small GC.stat hacks to manage it a tad, when I talk about how ruby has it's own heap and manages garbage collection lower down in this post: https://ginxh.io/2018-04-18/high-performance-priority-queues...

Even fluentd had this issue with a default heap size lower than what was needed to initialize itself, causing hiccups, until the GC.stat RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_FACTOR was tuned in the source code.

Ruby memory bloat is everywhere. Being familiar with gc.stat and being able to tune ruby applications as you test them is a good habit to have if you develop or work with ruby based tools.

Julia Evans, an SRE at Stripe took a sabbatical to work on a ruby memory profiler. Her updates are here: https://jvns.ca/categories/ruby-profiler/

This is a great blog post, it's what I would have wanted to know if I went a bit deeper into this. Good stuff.
"if so, do you think he/she deserves more respect than programmers from the top layers?" And we get to the entire point of this post.

Short answer: No.
Long answer: No.
The "website" is at http://urlte.am , but it only includes a placeholder (the content intended for it currently resides at https://github.com/soult/urlteam-stuff/tree/master/website ). We also have a page at the ArchiveTeam website ( http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=URLTeam ), but our main communication happens through IRC, #urlteam on efnet.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have no problem whatsoever with removing offending content from Snipt. I regularly remove and ban users who post illegal or otherwise inappropriate content on the site.

If they contact me, I'll happily remove anything even remotely "pro terrorist group ISIS", but as mentioned, I've received no such requests (and I don't proactively review private snippets for offensive content unless it's reported to me).
Three things.

1) Success is a fashion, and a very dynamic and fickle one. Opinions of success (your own and everyone else's) are constantly changing. While it might seem today others are beating you, tomorrow could be your day in the press without you doing anything differently. This should help you see how little opinions of success really matter.

2) You are in control of the fashions you choose to follow and how you let them affect you.

3) Entrepreneurship is tough, and this is one of the reasons. The feeling will never get better; you'll find the more "successful" you are the worse it gets. Learn to accept this feeling and leverage it rather than fight it.
I honestly don't understand using a service to store bitcoins when a paper wallet using keypairs with offline-generated addresses is so readily available.

One of the aspects of Bitcoin that gives it value is cutting out third parties for storage.
Mathematicians tend to be very particular about reasoning (and by comparison even other scientists can be sloppy).

However, they can also be pretty free with their assumptions (which can be wild, though if reasoned from carefully usually turn out to be useful even if nobody anticipated that they would).

People working with mathematicians probably spend a lot of time wondering why they're so persnickety about some things most people would consider obvious ("but how do you really know 2+2=4?") but sometimes not so much about whether the constructions they're working with actually reflect a particular concrete reality.
So HL³, for example, doesn't get shipped, because noone wants to work on it?
I agree that more advanced statistical methods would be useful. A surprising number of scientists have poor knowledge about statistics whilst being dependent on it to prove their research.
You haven't included people who aren't in cars being fatalities. For example there have been two deaths of cyclists in the last week here due to hit and run. The cycle lanes where they exist are a joke.
> The numbers above indicate massive volatility.

You could look at an actual calculation of volatility instead of eyeballing some random prices: https://btcvol.info/ Right now we're in a pretty quiet period after the bubble in Jan 2014.
> What’s the connection between weather and fiber?

Exposed cables (and there are some, at least in US—my installer had to run some last-mile cables from the nearest, uh, tower, I guess, to my house) suffer from poor weather.
That's way too 4D chess. He's essentially a drag performer who primarily performs for himself. It's the only context in which anyone would ban products that Americans generally can't use or don't even know about, or write executive orders that can't actually be carried out, or tries to pull a coup through a court system that he doesn't have direct control over. It's like the fine art of gender impersonation or, for fans of The Crown, "Kinging/Queening", he's just presidenting, nothing to see here.
Wow I love me a window function!

Favorite/weirdest thing I learned to do most recently with window functions is using/abusing min() and max(). If there is no value in a column in a particular window, min and max will give NULL.

We use this to do really interesting stuff (entirely in sql!) like "partition usage into sessions where a session is defined as a bunch of activity by a user where they did an action at least once every 30 minutes"
> The point is to allow JavaScript to be able to use excellent C++/Rust code in a sandboxed environment when it makes sense.

That seems useful for the client side but you don’t need webassembly to do that on the server-side. E.g. https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3
GNU Units is a beautiful piece of software. I keep using it for everything. You can convert between currencies, too.

If GNU Units cannot do something, I resort to using Maxima[1].

[1] https://maxima.sourceforge.io
One of the tendencies of shrinking companies is exacerbated executive infighting.

If the company is growing, there are new X-of-Y positions to move up to.

If the company is stable or shrinking, people start watching out for their own careers with knives out.

AMD possibly avoided this because of size & realization of what needed to be done. Intel's too big & old: I would be very surprised if they weren't much more internally resistant to that sort of change.

And one can only deal with your colleagues throwing up brick wall after brick wall on every bit of minutiae for so long, as least if you're talented enough to have other options.
> find it hard to believe that a single person can make much of a difference ... goes to show what a shit show Intel has become since even he was not able to right that ship.

These statements almost seem contradictory. What if instead of "not being able to right that ship", it is instead an example to the contrary?
Can I encourage you to think this through to the end because I see this argument so often. Never in human history has self-imposed restraint with regard to scientific exploration, possibilities and development given us any real advantage. The loser will be the one who practices that restraint of scientific exploration (not develop nuclear power, not go to space, not develop certain vaccines from stem cells). He will die out. The winner will be the one who ignores it, kills the other with atom bombs, has nuclear power, vaccines, super-soldiers and space habitats. And if the winner then comes to the conclusion that he might dedicate some of his energy and over-engineered super-brains to saving Earth and the environment, again, he will have a much bigger chance of success at this, too. You may well find this reprehensible but it is certainly axiomatic for humanity as a whole.

As a whole, people will never accept something in the long-term that requires measurable and hard sacrifices from them. For a current example just look at how hard it is to convince people to stay in lockdown (and those benefits are arguably much more obvious and immediate than "effects on the environment").

The answer to your second statement is more obvious still:
If my health (and brain capacity, for arguments sake) is increased, I will have the ability to solve the other problems in the way that we humans traditionally solve problems outside of dogmatic and religious spaces: By scientific advancement.

Why should potentially limit my brain capacity and health to have a shorter lifespan in a potentially slightly more liveable environment? That makes no sense, sorry. Only if we all (including scientists, investors and innovators) live longer and healthier lives, then there will be both incentive and opportunity to solve problems of the environment in a way that does not require personal sacrifice (think carbon capture, lab-grown meat, becoming an interplanetary species and growing meat on asteroids if you want to take it that far) ;-)
Lotus' failure was more because they failed to port to Windows, betting instead on OS/2.

Lotus was at a crossroads. DOS was obsolete, was the future OS/2 or Windows? They chose OS/2.

Lotus was a big, cash rich company at the time. Their fatal error was not realizing they should have ported 1-2-3 to both OS/2 and Windows. Then they would have been secure regardless of which prevailed.
This may or may not be the case anymore[1] - but for a long while Postgres' managed to outperform MongoDB when restricted to just using single JSON column tables.

One of the larger relational DBs beating the OG NoSQL will always fill me with amusement.

1. Ed. looks like this is still the case, but please remember this is MongoDB specifically. AFAICT MongoDB is mostly a dead branch at this point and a comparison against Redis or something else that's had continued investment might be more fair. I'm just happy chilling in my SQL world - I'm not super up-to-date on the NoSQL market.
The fraction of the US population that can be fed by hunting is very small, though. There just arent that many wild animals.
However, the main reform that people are asking for is a shortening of copyright terms which really isn't a factor that plays into this case or, for the most part, with computer software generally. One can imagine copyright reform that broadly and explicitly exempts interfaces from at least copyright protection but that has generally not been one of the top issues historically.
Had to look this up, but the high-speed rail network in Portugal/Spain runs on standard gauge, so trips to France weren't a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge_in_Spain
I wish I could upvote this multiple times. If you want people to give you money for what you do, you have to _bring value_ to the table. Don't just put out something mildly interesting and then beg afterwards for donations of "support" from your non-existent community.
Hmm that is quite smart yeah. The smallest Linode VPS accounts are actually quite cheap yeah.. I see they have removed their smallest instance though. But i guess any other good VPS host will work. Hosting git repoes does not exactly take a lot of oompfh.
"(a) business leaders aren't stupid and (b) if the equities market was really significantly rigged or inefficient, these people would refuse to raise capital using equities."

Wouldn't that depend on who the market is stacked for/against, by how much, and what their alternatives are?
Go read the Wikipedia article on SGI. You're actually correct, the SGI of old is long dead.

Some other company bought them (Rackable Systems) just for the name and are selling products that are not anywhere near as cool as the old SGI products, but are still considered super computers and big storage.
Create a bitcoin mining farm from EC2 instances ;)
What are your feelings about the "Aw, Snap!" error message?