skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing, I don't think it's fair to characterize it that way. Aside from QE, there's no real sign that "massive streams of money" were "dumped in" at all, outside of the three QE rounds. Here's a graph from the FED where the three rounds of QE are highly visible spikes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BASE

A weird, philosophical skepticism towards fiat currency and an irrational belief in high rates of inflation even without any evidence for it has been a common folk belief amongst goldbugs for decades. (Side note: what's the cryptocurrency equivalent of a goldbug? A bitbug?)

The general mechanism for the FED to influence the money supply is by borrowing and lending money with commercial banks. QE is only really used as a last resort.
> E.g., consider, "Curious unexpected aerodynamic principles of dandelion seeds lead scientists to new areas of discovery"

You can even shorten that to "unexpected aerodynamic principles of dandelion seeds".
Any recommendations on a NAS with integrated search?

One of the challenges with a NAS is remote access from mobile devices.
> I'd be willing to bet NIMBY antics are a large cause of this problem. SF metro area has the 4th highest rate of homeless people per capita, I have to imagine absurdly high rents is a part of it.

There's a robust correlation in US between homeless population and the stringency of zoning/land-use laws that restrict/delay/obstruct new housing: https://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/pdf/Raphael_homelessness_an...

Homeless problem is downstream of NIMBY problem -- it's not an issue with "mental health" or "drug use" (sure, the most flagrant instances of homelessness have those involved, but that's because of what makes things flagrant, not what makes people homeless), it's to do with pathological overpricing and undersupply of housing (especially and most crucially at the lower end of pricing) in US.

And no, "SF has earthquakes" isn't an excuse. So does Tokyo and they manage to build apartments and have rents far far lower than those in SF -- while having a /much/ higher population.
What value of taxes are they hoping to avoid for that $400k if bribery?
SSHKeyDistributor is available on PyPI now
No—but we should probably do what we can to make each person and company's tax burden proportionate to their size and income. And we probably shouldn't frame efforts to do so as "taking money from the rich" as if wealthy people are somehow living in a separate community.
Email is in my profile. Google doc is preferred.
The average American commutes ~30 minutes each way [1]. Given a 9-hour workday (8-5 or 9-6), and 8 hours of sleep, that leaves 6 hours to eat breakfast, dinner, and get ready for work/bed plus occasional errands/exercise. This is also really only applicable Monday through Thursday, because Friday night and Sunday give you more flexibility. I'm just pointing out that for many people, there is quite a bit of time.

It is better to start with a healthy amount of sleep and figure out ways to optimize your other time, rather than thinking about what you want to do and using your sleep time as an adjustable lever. The truth is that if you feel like there is nothing else in your life besides work while you're getting a healthy amount of sleep, you need to make other life changes (if you have the option). Limiting your sleep will just ruin your mental and physical health.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/22/the-a...
Would love to test it out. Thx.
Has become? It's been ageist for a while now, since the 90s or even earlier.

https://newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-brut...
I think you're absolutely right that fear is the biggest problem a writer has to overcome, and that many of these products appeal to the fearful writer.

At the same time, I do remember what it was like writing on a typewriter, and in DOS word processors, and before I had an always-on internet connection. And I do think it was easier.

I had recently tried to get back into writing, and had cancelled both my home and mobile internet service, and wrote on an iPad with virtually every app deleted except a text editor. And I found that it really did help: instead of my head being filled with stuff from the internet, I could fill it with stuff about the story I wanted to write, the way I remember being able to when I lived in a more isolated world using a device that wasn't bursting at the seams with digital affordances.

That "imposed expectation" you talked about ended up killing off my efforts after I produced a draft I wasn't happy with, so that problem was still there. I'm getting back into it again, and will probably recreate my setup from before. This time around I bought a cheap Alphasmart Dana, since I'd sold my iPad.

It could be that I'm part of a subset of people that are just more easily distracted by / addicted to a lot of digital stuff that's emerged in the past couple decades. But I do know that some professional writers have considerably more elaborate setups than myself or anyone buying a portable word processor: a tiny house out in the woods, a room that simulates a thunderstorm outside, etc.

I don't think you're wrong about what drives a lot of people to buy this stuff, but I also don't think these products are without value.
In addition to what the parent suggests (great ideas, and similar to suggestions I was going to make)...

If you're in a hot/young market like the Bay Area, then it may be worth considering moving to a secondary market. I'm in Phoenix, and know that spots in Texas, Atlanta and other areas are similar in that there's more line of business software development that has a lot of people that re a bit older. Right now, I think the average developer age where I am is 40yo. Of course there are other aspects to consider in terms of a move, but it's worth thinking about.

And to double down on what the parent suggested... limit your resume to the last 10 years or so with career highlights, and nuke the education section. For the most part, nobody cares once you're in a field more than a few years.

Good luck.
My advice: Don't expect to master sales by reading a few books or watching a few videos. Definitely do those things, but becoming a good salesperson takes just as long as becoming a great programmer. It takes a ton of practice and learning. Just trying to set your expectations.

Okay, one more piece of advice: One of the most important skills in sales is follow-up. Don't assume someone is not interested if they don't respond. That might be the reason...but it also might be because they were busy and they forgot to respond to your email. Keep following up with them until they tell you to stop. I've closed deals after sending emails and making phone calls every week for months.

Oh, and thick skin. You need really thick skin because people treat salespeople like s*.
Would love an early access code, too. phil@hubx.io
Physicists and astronomers by and large pronounce it something like “urunus”, with the accent on the first syllable. In addition to avoiding jokes, it feels more formal to me, probably because I’ve mostly heard it primarily in academic settings.
Thinkercon Nov 17, 2018
I've been thinking along those lines, with some external GPIO pins hooked up to toys and simple commands to control them. So the kid could type "ON 4" and the pin labeled 4 hooked up to a light would turn it on. Or "VOLUME 3" to set the volume of the sound output. File system commands like LS, CD, and PLAY <name> to play a music file to sound out. Maybe more commands that control RC channels where you have lots of flexibility on what you put on the other end.
Get over it, the forest needs to burn down occasionally.
I’m not a fan of the attitude that the homeless are solely to blame for their problems.
What's a "home room" in this context?
Nice, except for the form factor which doesn't allow stacking objects on top of it.
I feel that societal shared loading for university education makes the most sense. Individual loading doesn't help anything about practical independence in our society, while making us all poorer for no social benefit. Bankruptcy protection is a problem, but even if you fix that, significant problems remain. Let me explain:

You significantly retard your own economy by weighting all new university grads with significant payments. If as soon as they graduate, some portion of their earnings starts going to repay loans, it's either slowing the flow of money into the economy (if not being spent), or taking money from possible retirement savings growth of that grad.

Society and our economy also loses out on not educating sharp people with leading edge knowledge. So by creating this front end debt load, some very sharp people might be unable to take the debt, or others will avoid it, but held back by self-learning things that they could have picked up faster or more comprehensively at university.

Societally, productivity is higher with a more educated labor force:
https://www.epi.org/publication/states-education-productivit...
Yeah, admittedly, I almost never adjust my tip amount based on perceived service quality. I don't think tipping generally affect service quality. The only way I really react to bad service is by not going to the establishment.
It certainly adds more to the discussion than your lack of anecdata, don't you think?
Flip it around: don't run the server on a typical home internet connection but instead run it in a data center.
Nice idea for a product and the security looks OK.

A good alternative would be a combined macOS and iOS open source project that used a Mac laptop as a base station and shared search indices, etc. over a local network or Bluetooth connection. Then a user would control everything.

Baring that, a commercial version of above, or the Journal service in the article sounds good and fills a need I have.
You're right I was mistaken. Not able to edit my comment.
How to use Spaces, Apple's mostly ignored macOS Mojave productivity feature
So, no substantive contributions to make?
The way they framed it suggests poor economic thinking, but it's not necessarily a fallacy to think that 2 years into a program means you should stick it out.

The way to think about it isn't that to leave would be to throw away 2 years of tuition, it's to consider whether the next 2 years of tuition is worth a 4 year degree. And the answer could easily be, yes, it absolutely is worth it.
Augmentors: The First Blockchain AR Game Has Been Launched in South Africa
A more efficient way of doing weighted randomization – Medium
I'm astounded that blockchain, AR, and a semi-developed nation are coming together all at the same time.
Samsung: first EUV based process
Only software on the machines are strictly for what I am using them for. I have a router with a harddrive if I do download something and want to put it on another machine, but I don't remote desktop into them or anything. Each computer is on a separate desk, own monitor and mouse and keyboard. I just like it separate and not complicated. Keeps work stuff super focused and clean, for me. I could network them more if I wanted to, but gets the job done.
A disproportionate share of money has gone to the rich over the least few decades so maybe you should also not be a fan of their entitlement attitude.
Perhaps. The issue here is should somebody be completely destroyed for a difference of opinion? In the Bay Area the answer is a resounding yes.

Tolerance is a comforting and popular term in the Bay Area. What people there are actually seeking is the enemy of tolerance: harmony. I really don’t care about people’s silly justifications for not seeing the difference, because either way it’s generally a personal delusion, a self-deception.
It's interesting, original, and most importantly falsifiable. There will be real differences between the jets predicted by his theory and the commonly accepted model, I'm excited to see it tested.

There's a moment at which every scientific theory is only thought credulous by a single person.
There is a pretty good Utilitarian case for taxing the rich to help the poor too. No sense of entitlement needed.
Nope, it was S09.
How would material on a website provide trust, without a means to verify that information?
Then you may probably be interested in knowing it's just a change in the official code (and I believe quite a number of such changes took place all over the world during your lifetime) and that it even isn't a change but an addition - the "old" name remains ("Czechia" to "The Czech Republic" is what "Mexico" is to "The United Mexican States" or what "Russia" is to "The Russian Federation"). Every Czech or other eastern-European would perfectly understand you if you'd have been using the word "Czechia" in in the past although it wasn't used much in English speech actually. I had even been using it in some semi-official texts in 2008, it wasn't invented in 2013 and wasn't any kind of unacceptable or widely-unknown before.
Suspicious-me wonders who wrote/committed that code... Is it a "plausibly deniable mistake"?
If everything has to go through their relay, they can pretty easily see what mail servers are being interacted with.
Well, like all things, there are a range of opinions. Point taken.

My anecdotal experiences, talking to people online (mostly Reddit) and in-person (I grew up in rural midwest, have an affinity for those small towns, but live in PDX, and like to road trip to those areas), the reason there are no jobs is because taxes keep businesses away.
Can't you just derive any pitch if you know the default pitch of your own voice?
The Co-Op Farming Model Might Help Save America’s Small Farms
I'm always left perplexed when projects like these don't make F-Droid distribution a priority over the Play store. Regardless, I'll check it out if it ever finds its way to F-Droid.
I don't thing the crisis we're in right now should be blamed on patients; they might want a script, but that doesn't mean its in their interest.
Oh, that's Good News!
"As a solid example review the firing of Brendan Eich from Mozilla"

I like how everyone is so concerned with Eich, but not at all with the LGBT employees of his, for whom his actions flat out told them that he considered them second class citizens. Eich did not "challenge the area's popularity", his actions said that he felt those people were not deserving of the same rights that he was.
Greenhouse gas emissions from the largest US industrial plants fell 2.7% in 2017
If someone can’t afford rent in SF, they have other options besides living on the streets. For example, they can move somewhere cheaper.

The homeless in San Francisco are mostly people who can’t afford to live anywhere because they are incapable of generating or maintaining anything of monetary value. Rents could fifty bucks a month and they’d still be on the streets. The problem, then, is how to take care of those people.
I think you're off by a factor of 100?
In terms of women's participation in the workforce the communist states were far ahead of the West. Not sure how that came about.
Don't most home ISPs block inbound server ports? I know Cox in particular does, as well as a few others. I have a business account for this reason that I pay a bit more (better support response too), but not sure if this is something a lot of people can even use without a backing service.

Cool idea though.

As an aside, any suggestions on easy to install/configure/update mail in a box + letsencrypt options? Thinking of throwing something on an rPI for similar chores.
Thank you. I really should donate to the Web Archive because it's just such a useful resource.
Political philosophy is not a protected status, nor should it be, and private entities should not be under pressure to give up their freedom of association. Consumers should have options, of course, but we get that through good old monopoly-busting (the situation is different for physically-entrenched monopolies like ISP's, but none of your listed industries are that).

Aside from maybe payment processing, you're also drastically overstating how limited the options in these spaces are. There are literally hundreds of domain registrars. Hosting providers are also plentiful and you can always colo. Facebook and Twitter are not infrastructure. Uber and Lyft are not known for their business services in any case.

Capricious bans do happen, but if someone somehow manages to get blacklisted from all of AWS, GCP, Azure, Rackspace, and DigitalOcean, odds are pretty good that that's society working as intended. It's nearly impossible to convince that many businesses not to take your money without actually being a terrible person who doesn't deserve to have your views publicized.
Getting an Apple Watch really hit home how bad alcohol is for sleep. Anything more than a drink four hours before sleep absolutely destroys my deep sleep. I go from ~3.5 hours of deep sleep to 1 or less. My resting heart rate is also 10 or 15 bpm higher while I sleep than when I don’t drink
When companies get to monopoly status (which the SV companies are), many of the kinds of things they could do as non-monopolies are no longer legal. They also face greater political scrutiny and legal action.

This is as it should be.

The railroad companies are heavily regulated, as are the phone companies, as are the energy companies, etc. They tried applying 1930s phone laws to the internet, and that didn't work out. At some point, they'll have to nut up and make some laws that prevent monopolies from doing bad things, or they'll have to allow the FTC to start breaking 'em up.
I've been following Uber's big data platform engineering for a while, this is a really interesting update. Specifically, it's interesting how well their Gen 3 stack held up. Also interesting choice to solve the incremental update problem at storage time instead of inserting another upstream ETL process (which would be incredibly expensive at this level of scale I'm sure).

Also interesting: A lot of companies, you look at their big data ecosystem and it's littered with tons of tools. Uber seems like they've always done a good job keeping that pared down, which indicates to me that their team knows what they're doing for sure.
"The issue here is should somebody be completely destroyed for a difference of opinion?"

Calling it a "difference of opinion" is really masking the entire thing. He was saying that, not only are LGBT people not deserving of the same rights that he had, but that we should be able to vote on what rights they have. Can you see how dehumanizing that is?

And I cannot take your bit about "tolerance" seriously when we're talking about someone who, themselves, was not showing any kind of tolerance.
Sviatoslav Richter describes his great frustration with this phenomenon in his notebooks. His sense of loss is palpable.
Even when those political activities are them saying that you are not deserving of the same rights as other people?
What is there to innovate on, design wise? I'm not saying there's nothing, but a lot of people bemoan the "lack of innovation" in mobile device design, but never say what they'd like to see, design wise.
> push for a less white (or asian male) workforce

I hadn't thought about it, but this might be an alternative explanation for the apparent ageism in hiring. Assuming that most "old" candidates are white/asian males, which is probably true, and assuming a bias against white/asian males, also probably true, you could end up with apparent ageism even though no one actually cares much about age. Interesting.

Doesn't matter that much in practice, as getting less white (Warren notwithstanding) isn't any easier than getting less old.
If the guy has a PhD in AI that's a serious credential to just nuke. I like omitting dates as a happy medium.
That fear actually really messes with me sometimes. The anxiety of knowing I won’t get enough sleep actually keeps me awake sometimes, then I get more anxious and less likely to sleep, etc...
Real zero knowledge would involve you controlling the private keys and either a "lose it and you really lost it" or shamir-escrow model. Then you wouldn't have to rely on their security at all, just your control of the private key and airgapping of the escrow.
Ya, big data only starts at 100,000,000 PB. Everyone knows that.

There is no size requirement. It's more about what you collect, the frequency, the coverage, and how you use it.
Thanks.

Please see my other questions here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18243685
Was the burnout Google-specific, or do you think it would have likely happened at other tech companies as well?
Golang to add a core implementation of an internal language server protocol
I would love to get an early access code, thanks!
I think the downvotes are for suggesting the defense industry.

"We won't hire you because you're old, but don't you dare go to those guys who will, because we hate them." lol
Same, it’s like clockwork for me if I get three or more bad nights of sleep in a row
Don't confuse Sales with Marketing and don't confuse Marketing with Advertising. If you have correctly defined your market, correctly segmented your sub-markets, correctly defined your distribution & customer acquisition channels and correctly priced your products and services, there is no need to 'learn' sales... customers will be calling you.

Disclosure : I'm a 3-time technical founder with 1 abject failure, 1 IPO and 1 private sale exit who wishes somebody had told him this 30 years ago.