skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best interpretation is in impoverished nations, a key economic bottleneck is lack of sufficient capital to improve their economy. Capitalism works pretty well in that stage to improve everybody's lot. Economic growth in this stage is great, double digit growth or high single digits is common.

In more advanced nations, access to capital isn't an overall issue. However, economic growth is low single digits in a "good" year. And if you shift to other measures of people's security, as shown in Dalio's collection of data, the improvements are slowing or even reversing.

This isn't making capitalism a boogeyman. It's a serious criticism of a phenomena that we need to understand, or, as Dalio points out, we're in for a lot of serious chaos ahead.
Many were bussed in by other cities to California
Learning Trades in Options University
What a terrible comparison. Why don't you compare how those people were doing before and after enterprise entered their countries? Their standards of living are drastically better with sweatshop work than without it, and continues to increase.
Right.

$5 a day is a significant amount of money to a huge number of people.

In the UK, if you're on minimum wage, a 3 quid coffee represents approximately 5% of your daily income.

If such an individual (someone who earned minwage for a lifetime) were to end up with even "merely" 100K in today's money at age 60 that would actually be an enormous amount relative to their cohort.
I listen to some relatively obscure music, and Spotify never seems to have what I'm looking for, and if they do it's usually only their latest or most popular album. I switched to Apple Music over a year ago and their catalog seems drastically more complete.
You can't change wages directly on your own, no. But the systems that set the wages are not immune to public opinion. (Whether you consider wages to be set by companies, government, or other forces, this holds true.)
"...but the real problem is the mountain."

Terrific metaphor, thank you. I've been stuck with "the map is not the territory" for ages, which is too meta for polite convo.

With "maps / territory", I never thought to ask "do we have to summit the mountain? can we take the valley, the pass? can we tunnel? go around?"

"Grumpy programmers who think maths is for academics are going to miss out"

Probably. I'm still stuck eating the paste, banging the rocks together. Still arguing that Chain of Command is not nested Decorators, trying to explain that memcached (or redis) in parallel vs write thru is a replicant and not a cache, that "agile velocity" means spunk if you're not tracking your defect rate, that Spring & J2EE style DI & IoC is dynamic programming envy (just use Python), etc.

"It all comes down to clarity..."

God help us.

PS- Reading that Twitter thread might be fun, if you have a link handy.
How is it unfair for people making twice as much, to pay twice as much? If anything, "fairness" would favor a system where (absolute) taxes went up slower than income, as I doubt consumption of government services increases linearly with income (modulo rent seeking by the very rich and powerful).
Author here, thanks for letting me know, I’ll test the font on more devices and fix it!
What about Amazon Music? It has all those same features.
Also generates less clicks. I probably wouldn't have clicked this if it said "most job cuts in a quarter since 2015".

I also feel like the scale of this graph makes this look a lot worse than the numbers indicate.
Language has also been used to coordinate mob violence. So have arms and legs. Public roads have helped in the coordination of violence and human trafficking, and it's time to take roads seriously.

Violence is illegal, not the potential pathways.
I'd love to use the VSCode IDE launched from the host and compile C++ code within docker. Is this possible? Currently, I write code in the IDE and compile in the container from the terminal.
Imagine that, cross compile from any host in a contained c++ environment. :)

Edit: I use CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE to describe the target env.
Wow, very interesting. Never actually thought Apple would win the US music subscription market.

I am though a user myself of Apple Music, and the app I must say, on iOS, is way better, and the no. 1 reason I switched from Spotify when Apple Music launched.
Apple Music does have a larger library. I also think both of the services have reached a point of "good enough". If you want to stream and play music, they both work well enough.
This is structural. I'm reminded of what Matt Levine often says about insider trading rules: they are not about fairness, they are about theft. Apparently our legal system is better at protecting property than at fairness (which isn't even well defined).
"The report said worry about an economic slowdown was the main driver of companies' layoff intentions."

Has anyone seen this happen in practice? Any HNer who is management have to lay people off because their executives say “we have no problem getting capital right now but we think it might become more difficult in the future.”
Why do they have to "know the correct ethical amount"? Don't use loopholes and you can be sure to be ethically, morally and lawfully on the right path!

Comparisons are stupid but still:

Compare loopholes with game glitches. They are not intended, they break the system and every player is hated for using them.

Often "pro-loopholers" claim that everyone tries to optimize their tax, so why not big companies. But tax breaks which are used by the regular guy have clear implications: Support families, incentivize businesses, steer society in a certain direction. Loopholes are just edge cases that have not been thought of, thus have to be closed as soon as possible. They are the glitch in a perfect tax law. Don't exploit them!
The Price for ‘Predatory’ Publishing? $50M
F# in js - https://fable.io/
"These people, deserve respect, but honestly just as much, they need help."

What kind of help are you proposing?
Congratulations on the new job!
Another subset to join the ones already being used by UWP, Android and iOS. Oh well, xkcd comes to mind.
One of those is recklessly exposing someone to the risk of an incurable disease, the other is doing the same thing with additional immediately visible damage.
Interesting title. If you just started building skills in software development, what would you focus on early, in terms of knowledge/experience, to make development "suck" less in a career?
> I bet few people would be eager to develop banking software on their free time for instance.

If a bank found someone who was eager to develop its software for free, it would have a pretty good reason to question their motives.
Most people don't commute to work in cars in NYC / San Francisco / etc either.
Trouble with the unemployment numbers is that it does not account for employment quality. There is a very high number of people who are underemployed or those who have stopped participating in the job market.
The comments here have a fair number of people baffled at why folks would stay at jobs like this for any period of time. Here’s my thought based on working in games for around a decade; I left after that, in part for quality of life reasons.

For folks that want to work in games, there can be a strong feeling that it is a quixotic quest; there aren’t a lot of jobs relative to the applicants, you’re chasing a dream, and the big places of employment often made the games that made you passionate about everything in the first place.

Once you get that first job, you’re taught that you are not only one of the best, but that you’re lucky to be there. It’s easy to quickly bond with your comrades around the shared, stressful experiences. And to internalize that this is all ok because what quest doesn’t involve some pain?

My first game job was in 2002, and my long, slow falling out of love with the industry started after shipping the first game I’d worked on. Once it had gone gold, we all took a couple weeks at 40 hours a week. After that, I was told by my boss that we all had to go back to 60 hour weeks. I asked why. The answer was, “that’s how we work.”

That was when I started looking for a new job.
Author of Citybound here! Feel free to ask me any questions about the project! I’m mostly active on the Citybound subreddit in general.

Also, check out the main homepage at https://aeplay.org/citybound for a more player-centric intro
I greatly enjoyed the "state of the union" summary on WebAssembly, and I liked how cleverly it was disguised as a new job announcement. This sounds like a dream job (at least for me), and it prompted me to look into edge computing and WASM/WASI more seriously. Thanks for the article, Steve, and good luck!
If you take the average person, the situation they find themselves in at the present time, including locked in expenditure such as lease agreements/mortgages/car loans, I agree. They have already committed to spending more than 66%.

Choosing to intentionally limit your expenditure to 66% is different.

In the limiting case it simply means living like you earn minimum wage whilst earning more than it.

Of course, if you are at the absolute bottom of the income spectrum and have no means to change that, you are buggered. We should probably fix that.
Apple abuses its position as platform gatekeeper to get its own products in front of its customers.

Anyone who has used both products knows Spotify is objectively better in terms of music discovery and the social aspects of music. Not to mention, spotify works everywhere. Apple music only works on iOS and MacOS.
Maybe. Fortnite is addictive in it's own, less self-obsessed way. Not sure which is healthier.
It is true that the U.S. over the last ~150 years has outperformed a lot of the world, but it maintained 7% real over that period of time. Ritholtz was all over the damn place in his article, and attacks the strawman of 12% growth. In comparison 7% has some backing.

Due to volatility, it is unsafe to retire on a planned drawdown rate of 7% (4% is a good rule), but it isn't unrealistic to expect 7% growth.
" For the former, it strengthens our case that science and faith are compatible."

No it's not. Humans are just able to hold contradictory or conflicting thoughts in their heads simultaneously

And it cheapens science when you try to superimpose your religious superstitions on it.
Note that I'm talking about Faith here, not the faith that a hypothesis might work out which is useful to have.
Facebook compiler and AI acceleration hardware summit recap
Not taking isn't the same as giving.

If you oppose something, it's a good idea to demonstrate you understand what you're against, otherwise you risk looking stupid.
I've found the cheapest possible automatic drip machine (small, the only interface is an "on" switch, probably one at your local Goodwill right now for like $5) with middling grounds (something available at Costco, not your fancy local roaster at 3-∞x that price per ounce) produces significantly better coffee than Keurig. Used grounds can go in the garden, and the filter's paper. Less counter space than a Keurig. Can smash one on the ground in a fit of rage every couple months, replace it, and not notice it in your bank account. Bag of coffee and box of filters take up less space than enough kcups to make the same amount of coffee.

Unless you're into the flavored stuff. It's no help for that. Maybe look into cold brew? Cheap, low-equipment, tastes great with a splash of milk. Or keep Keuriging if it's making you happy, obviously. I'm just some asshole with an opinion, on the Internet.
If they were unionized it would be much easier to understand what they're getting themselves into.

Union contracts are typically public, unambiguous and well enforced; certainly better than relying on "company policy" to judge what work conditions will be like.
Definitely taking "war" to be literal, so these were the thoughts I had.
Don't forget Fable - F# - https://fable.io
I prefer a clever dripper to a french press. Much less cleanup... toss filter and grounds in the trash in one fell swoop, rinse once or twice under some water in the sink, done.

On the other hand, I much prefer a latte to any pour-over or french press coffee, maybe it's the steamed milk, I'm not sure. I don't mess with latte's at home anymore. I've had two <$200 machines wear out on me and it's too much work for something not nearly as good as a local shop.
I used to pay for Spotify, it was lame, didn't have all the music I wanted, then I got Google Play All Music Access, I have not needed anything else since. I assume Apple Music is similar enough. I've not had to pirate music in half a decade because it just works, and I can cache songs to my device too.

I can see why Apple would dominate for iPhone / Apple users though.
I don't understand how you can claim this is a futile gesture. If she doesn't want to talk on the record, or state things which might involve snitching on someone I find that to be an admirable action to take.

By the end of the grand jury she will be freed, and she will be freed with the moral high ground. If you think having morals about not snitching is 'futile' that is your choice but many people take it very seriously.
The job of the guild / union isn't to give everyone a job who wants one, though. It's to ensure that people who have a job are treated fairly.
For an example of unionization and certification issues that deal with this, look at the medical field.

There are many more people that want to be doctors than there are spots in med schools (US-centric view point here). The AMA artificially keeps the enrollment numbers at med-schools low, so as to drive demand for doctors in general and therefore, increase their wages. The AMA is well aware of the current shortage of pediatricians and over-abundance of cardiologists. Though the employment dynamics of literal brain-surgeons are a bit different teachers or gig-bassists, they do largely follow the same patterns in terms of pay. Granted, most MDs in the US really are very good at their jobs, so I'm not all that put-off when they literally save the lives of my loved ones (money has no value there).

Compare this to nurses and their employment dynamics. Phlebotomists aren't paid badly, but they aren't paid well either. Their shifts are hectic, long, and erratic. Hospice nursing in the US is nearly criminal in it's underpayment and overwork, especially for the emotional labor that goes into it. The reason here is that there is a vast oversupply of people that want to be nurses and in medicine.

The core issue with both cases is that such jobs provide meaning to people that want to do those jobs.

They trade off different things for that value. MDs trade their 20s and a lottery ticket into med school for that meaning in their lives, nurses trade comfort and pay for that meaning in their lives. MDs have what amounts to a very strong union, nurses (generally, but there are many exceptions in the US) do not have as strong of a union.

Generally, any profession that provides meaning in the life of a human will either be very underpaid/overworked OR will have a very strong union/credentialing system to pass before becoming employed. We all regress to the same level of misery.
Supply and demand aren’t perfectly measurable values.

Supply and demand change all the time, and can even shift while you’re in school, or over the 40+ expected years of most careers.

Telling someone to pick a career where demand > supply forever is impossible because if you believe in the market, supply will rise to meet demand.
Ask HN: When was the last time you used bluetooth?
Asking this question because I've been researching a bit on Bluetooth and on forums I've read a lot of mixed responses from people. Some people like it some don't want anything to do with it.

This thread will help me understand what hacker news thinks of BT
Appearances will be increasingly important to Citybound, I’m going for a flat shaded but super detailed look. Thanks for becoming a patron, much appreciated!
and yet, when we look at most of the political endorsements of Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates and nearly all of SVs billionaires we see that they tend to favor Democratic candidates.

the simple idea of rich republicans vs. average to poor democrats has some truth, but there's also the pesky fact of a large number of liberal Democratic billionaires which complicates the picture.

i think it's because these ultra-wealthy folks can extract their needs from (aka corrupt) any politician. D vs R doesn't really matter much.
If your researched is focused on Gans/adversarial stuff the specificity of working with goodfellow might out-weigh some other concerns. Also-hey-I'm not trying to make this tradeoff. I am just saying I can imagine someone else choosing to do so.

personally if I had offer from Google/MSR I'd take it over apple but I'd much rather work for apple than facebook even if yann le cunn told me I was cooler than sliced bread.

edit: also re-reading your comment I bet apple is willing to pay that crazy money. Goodfellow probably has compensation in 1-10 million range...
I use Apple Music on Windows daily.
It's not independent of the OS that it's expecting, obviously. But anything below that OS can be swapped out via virtualisation.
Exodus is the story of a mass immigration
Has that actually happened in Singapore though? I usually read about those kinds of incidents in rural communities which are recently and rapidly becoming internet connected. Not in densely populated and highly educated city-states which have been highly connected for decades.

Also this makes it sound like Singapore is less worried about mobs and more about cultural values

> K. Shanmugam, the law minister, warned lawmakers of the dangers of unregulated speech, handing them a list of “offensive song lyrics”, which included hits by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande.
I agree with Elizabeth Warren that Apple should not be allowed to do this. They create the marketplace and then compete in it giving themselves advantages that they deny other companies.
Originally it was written in JavaScript, then rewritten in C++, then a few months later in Rust.

https://github.com/citybound/citybound/wiki/Development-Hist...
This idea really appeals to me. Altho I think one way to gain support is to do the right thing..the right thing being planting forests or grasslands or carbon sequestering zones that is equivalent to 1-5-2x the Area of the floating cities.

Further:

1. Example: if 10 acres is the size of the floating city, it should also support 20 acres(more is better if they can afford it) of land with newly planted forests and grasslands to restore habitat and to sequester carbon.

2. If they can support more land(funded by the floating cities denizens), they can buy more on land to rehabilitate while maintaining a base with solar panels, food forests, maybe even dairy and hives..all eco system supporting activities etc. even short term vacation spots. Hello Airbnb! Haha!

3. The richer the floating city’s denizens are with their work or trade or whatever economic activity, the more they can invest in carbon sequestering activities. Example: fruits and rice and grain will become precious commodities and more $$$. They can trade it with others.

4. We would still need metals and minerals etc. we can’t take all the population to sea. Also the question of how this will change marine biology and eco system is a question.
It's incredible reading through the comments on this post and nobody seems to see the game industry for what it is: the canary in the coal mine.

Programming within the game industry is sliding rapidly toward blue collar, and you'd be a fool to assume the problem is contained. The problem for programmers is simple - Supply and Demand.

Thanks to a massive publicity push from big tech, the public is being sold - hook line and sinker - a story about how we're in a "shortage of developers" and how everyone needs to "learn to code". Combine that with the plethora of boot camps, and online materials, and it's never been easier to pickup JavaScript on a weekend and be coding a website.

I've never seen people shoot themselves in the foot more. For god sakes, you're sawing your foot off at this point. There is now a massive wave of young developers, just getting their footing who will be entering a work force near you in the next 10-20 years. And don't forget about remote workers, they gun for your job too. It's becoming more and more technically feasible for a software shop in the US to hire a dev team based in, I dunno, China. I've seen it happen to a group of incredible devs. At the end of the day, the numbers didn't pencil in their favor.

Ask yourselves if you really think the good times will always roll. Really ask yourself if Obama standing up in front of the nation beckoning for everyone to "Learn to Code" was really good for you, or good for the big tech companies that got him up there? Wake up, and smell the ashes. There are industry and economic forces actively working AGAINST you. Don't help them. Stop parroting the narrative that there is a "shortage of developers", for starters. And hedge your bets while you're at it - get really good at something. Specialize. Maybe it's firmware, maybe it's iOS AR, maybe its machine learning, find something niche, and get world class level good at it. In 15 years, hopefully you'll be one of the few still making "6 figure salaries".
> Apple music only works on iOS and MacOS.

False: https://musi.sh
The specific limits per instance type certainly still arent

In the official documentation they do mention that different instance sizes have different networking capabilities. This is stuff you learn early on when learning AWS - from the official books.

In this case, the connection limits of the default stateful firewall on EC2 were not mentioned anywhere I could find

The fact that security groups are stateful and Nacls are stateless are questions I ask junior AWS folks when interviewing. That’s like one of the level 1 questions you ask to know whether to actually bring them in for an on-site.

and useless support for non-trivial issues. I'm sure if we were spending more, we would get better support people and they'd share insights into their networks

So what did you find when you turned on VPC logging for the network interface of the EC2 instance? Again this level of troubleshooting is a question I would ask junior admins during an interview process.

I’ve had 100% success rate with our business support using live chat. With things that were a lot hairier and with my own PEBKAC issues.

Download and patch myself, and upstream the patches if I have the time and patience. Isn't that the point of open source? Everything is broken, but at least I can inspect and fix parts of the system where I can see the code. Hell, binary patching is a thing, although I wouldn't want to do that on the regular. I've had patches accepted in the FreeBSD kernel, OpenSSL, Haproxy to fix issues, some longstanding I ran into.

I’m sure my company wouldn’t have any trouble with approving our running our own patched version of our production database an OpenSSL....
Sure, the big fixed items drive everything, but they are the baseline.

Saving on housing is hard, and saving on medical and education is more or less impossible. If you have, say, a $3000/month income, resulting in a $2000/month budget and you need $1000/month expense just to survive, that's $1000/month expendable. A $5/day latte ends up as 15% of that budget, that it is 5% of your income is irrelevant because you don't have access to these $2000.

7 of these "small" expenses and you are left with nothing. No extra money for a nice car, a more comfortable home, holiday trips, etc...
I did it myself.

$5 NYC1 droplet with pg-bench hitting a $480/mo NYC1 Postgres cluster:

progress: 60.0 s, 2859.9 tps, lat 3.492 ms stddev 3.421

Yikes.
Someday you will die why are you bothering to eat a hearty breakfast now?

Our world is the sum of countless factors. Giving up issues large and small will on net make the world worse to larger or smaller degrees.