skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, but someone who could pay the 1% per month for rent could save the 20% downpayment in 20 months and easily afford the mortgage payments as they are less than 1% per month. The only thing that would stop them from saving money is not having a choice, but to pay the huge rent. It's taken me almost 10 years to save for downpayment for this reason: rent keeps climbing up and eats a good chunk of my income.
Houses are fairly cheap in the US and incomes are fairly high: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/realestate/first-time-hom....

> Of those who did manage to buy, the median age was 32; median salary, $72,000; and median home price, $182,500. (Among all buyers, the median age was 44; median income was $88,500; and median home price was $227,700.)

Assuming no down payment, a mortgage of 182,000 at 4.5% is $920 per month, which is just about 15% of $72,000 (before tax). It’s about 19% after tax. Still quite affordable.
I do not. 20% is more plausible. The gap between 15% and 20% is high.
And that's exactly my point: the cultural norms dictate whether something is an offer or not. For Halloween, the placing of candy outside one's door indicates that it is intended to be shared. For WiFi networks, in the absence of any other indication, not placing a password indicates that it is intended to be used.
That is nowhere near the level of gatekeeping that the duopoly of Google&Apple have. The web is full of opportunity, that we owe to TBL's decision to make it free. The dangerous gatekeepers of the web are Google and FB , but there is still plenty of opportunity left.
I'm considering my first Windows workstation in more than a decade and was planning on Windows for Workstations precisely because I don't want to remove all the packaged crap.

£300 is quite the premium though.
What quantity are you measuring that's 7.5 GB... and what else do you have on that machine? I quit Chrome on my current machine which has a bunch of other stuff and has no less RAM than yours, and even then I was left with <4GB of anything I could regard as usage. It can't possibly be just Windows itself idling at 7.5 GB?
There's some cases where it's use in Kubernetes. Some of the system pods will run privileged and also some CNI pods will too.
There’s basically 2 types of dealerships. One that sells at rock bottom prices, advertises low prices online no one fully qualifies for, and rarely negotiates much. They focus on what the maximum amount of month you can spend and nothing else. They are the ones selling big trucks and big engines for sky high rates, but not always. Sounds like this is the place you went.

The second type of dealer doesn’t have tons of deals advertised and is usually priced on par with the places around them. They are much more focused on providing a nice sales experience and service. They usually have big lots and repeat customers. Baby boomers love them. You can haggle but they won’t hit rock bottom prices unless you pit two dealers against each other. All numbers are given to you and it doesn’t have the monthly cost tables.
Including gas, oil changes, insurance, new tires, etc? How many kilometers per year?
Show HN: A Clojure implementation of logic programming language in SICP
Two problems with that.

Firstly if you want to personify the economy (don't), it has always been "geared towards getting you to spend what you can", from the first markets in antiquity through medieval times. Nothing about the modern economy is new. And please don't talk to me about targeted ads - the entire point of ad targeting is to avoid showing ads to people who aren't likely to purchase something. They're a way to utilise advertising budgets more effectively, but they aren't "hunting you down like a lion hunts down a sick gazelle". Nice imagery though.

Second problem is that there are plenty of modern economies where average people are good at saving money. Germany is the most obvious example: it's the saving savannah of Europe. Germans saving too much money is actually regularly cited by (bad) economists as a macro-scale problem for all of the Eurozone. But Amazon exists in Germany, it has the internet and retailers. They are just financially responsible.

Another good example is Switzerland. It doesn't run a budget deficit, it usually runs a small surplus:

https://tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/government-budget

The Swiss government is also highly democratic, so presumably the Swiss people like it that way (well, sometimes they get annoyed if the surplus gets too big of course).

Way too many people these days talk about ordinary retail businesses as if they had magical mind controlling powers. They don't. But culture can make a big difference.
Majority of data center users replace their gear within 3-5 years. There are outliers, of course, who replace hardware with each generation or those who run their servers into the ground, but 3-5 years is far more common, so 4 years on average.

This rough math means if AMD takes half of the new CPU orders, they should have about 10% server CPU market share within a year, consistent with some analyst estimates [1]

[1] https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20190328PD200.html
Sounds amazing. How do I distribute my Quark application? Is there a way to bundle a sketch as an executable that will look for a suitable Quark runtime and if not found, run an installer?
Those companies have to pay this much only because otherwise employees wouldn't be able to live there. And even then, the 750k per year is an outlier even in SF. Divide it by 2 to get the more realistic pay.
There's some stuff that isn't horizontally scalable either intrinsically, or the cost benefit hasn't gotten there yet. Back in the day I heard rumors.that Borg scheduler nodes needed a lot of cores on the local box _and_ a high per thread IPC. I could see Google happily spending $5k for 300 more MHz.
For a second I thought nobody was going to stick up for the bajillion dollar mega corporation.

Every employer I've worked for has had:
* Billions of dollars less money than Amazon
* Better working conditions

Amazon doesn't need your voice. The workers who fear an extended bathroom break might get them fired do.
I know. Even more problematic, complete designs don't exist for the aircraft. Often the tooling and jigs defined the design, and those are lost.

The restorers who do make parts from scratch would do the rest of the community a service by preparing proper drawings for them.

I know a group that decided to make an Me262 from scratch. They borrowed one from a museum in order to make the copy.
If AppStore model isn’t needed why is Tinder available on AppStore. They could have gone side load model. But didn’t. This just shows why AppStore is relevant.
Many recent discussions around the unfolding global warming catastrophe have asked, "What can we do?" Besides the obvious, Climeworks now has a scheme to let average people pay to bury carbon: https://www.climeworks.com/. I've signed up but have no information beyond the articles I've read about the company: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/magazine/climeworks-busin....

It seems we're past the point where reducing emissions will be enough, and to the point where we need to reverse atmospheric CO2, now.
>practically means that there is no underlying “red” or “apple” idea behind those concepts. That is something very valuable, Plato’s interpretation being debunked, that is.

This is one of my favorite parts in a fictional book Anathem. The question of syntax and semantics is explored there, and even a solution is suggested.
I built a dev computer out of some old Xeon E5-2670 V2s (10cores/20threads @2.5ghz) each. I thought it would be way faster than a single core i7 4 core at 4.5ghz. To my surprise, only a few special types of things are the 20 core machine faster than the 4 core machine.
It would be illegal if it were unauthorised, I'm not checking it's authorised because you'd have to be a moron to have published your open router if you didn't intend to have an open router being published. Whilst there's a chance that when I go to McDo that I'm not actually authorised and to use the published open wifi, it's so slim that it's not worth me tracking down the router owner to ask them -- if that were even possible to do.

If you place a bench in public and you don't want anyone to sit on it then you need to notify people explicitly ... it's the same, I don't find the owner of benches and ask them.

Are there any attacks that work just by connecting to someone's wifi, obviously I'm only using it for non-sensitive traffic unless it's a recognised provider, it's certainly part of my security considerations. Are there specific attacks you're thinking of? Such attacks would work equally if I had explicit authorisation, of course.

Re your link, last time I looked it was allowed to have open shared wifi, and the way you indicate it's open for sharing is having it open and shared. That's probably why the police gave cautions, it placates the complainant and they didn't have to lose in court.
> Maybe I've been working at the wrong places :).

I think it's a balance between keeping certain key tasks beyond the radar of PM's (so you have time to think and act) and doing enough "deliverables" to keep them happy.

Sadly, PM's in many places have ground-down that buffer to the point where you're maxed out on your backlog and they know everything that's in it. Or worse, they're creating fake deadlines to fabricate "urgency" so that you're no longer in control of the minutes in your day.
> That is not AWS's intent.

To clarify, I’m not talking about intent or “wants” in any way.

(If you are speaking of AWS’s intent, do you have some kind of privileged knowledge of what AWS “wants” to do?)

> And its FUD to suggest that somehow cloud vendors want to make money out of reliability.

Let’s forget about what AWS “wants”.

I think that AWS deserves to make money for making reliable services, and that it is right to pay them more money to get more reliability. This is not FUD, this is how business works. When I am working with a cloud provider to host my services, I am not trying to extract the most favorable terms possible—I want a deal where both parties are making money. If AWS is not making money from reliability, then that means, conversely, that I can’t buy it from them (more or less—this is a simplification).

And you can see that reliability is all over AWS’s marketing materials, because reliability is important to AWS’s customers.

> For example, in AWS, a webapp with a single Region approach using multiple AZs will give you higher availablility, but similar costs to a single AZ approach.

Reliability is more than just a collection of IaaS products wired together. The fact that two particular configurations have similar price points is not informative.

Single-region, multi-AZ is great for a large percentage of customers. When that’s not enough, you pay more money, and you should do some modeling of system availability because there are plenty of categories of errors that will now prevent you from reaching those higher availability targets.
For all of your internet-based concrete knowledge needs, I highly recommend Tyler Ley, a professor from Oklahoma State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMed3YtN-Fo
For vacation days, your point makes sense to me. For sick days, people don't get to choose when they get sick. Someone can just as easily get sick on day 1 or 2 of a job as on day 401 or 402.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/cfh7rk/understandin...
I think what is wrong with using such data, as I have stated, is that it is used at scale from single entities. If you look at the point of free speech what was it? The point of free speech was that many ideas could be expressed and there would be less of a chance that bad ideas take over. If you look at anti monopoly laws, what was the purpose. The idea was again that single entities had less bad influence over the economy. These are obviously simplified reasons, but in the end, the effects are actually that simple.

I believe we have run up to scenario where we must again reevaluate our laws to protect society from bad/harmful trends from large singular actors. They may not intend it to be harmful, but the fact is, it could be.

"[..] a massive and untested leap of logic." Google advertising is that massive and very well tested leap in logic. As for potential ISIS members, if you recall it, then you know that they were not only targeting just fighters they were also targeting ISIS brides and sympathizers. Any counter intelligence expert, or you can just read the manual on counter intelligence readily available to the public [https://publicintelligence.net/us-army-counterintelligence/], will tell you that terrorist or guerrilla support networks are just as important and damaging as the actual fighters, hearts and minds they say. They provide intel, monetary support, propaganda support, non combatant support like supply runs, etc. So you can be a member without being a fighter and still be vital.

Also when you talk about conversion rate, you're not talking about who clicked the ad. You are talking about who "bought" or "interacted" with a product after clicking. So you are gauging real activity from people who are clicking and looking at your stuff. 500k minutes of video watched. On average about 2 minutes I believe. That's a huge amount of interaction. You can barely get an invested mobile game player to watch 15 seconds for rewarded things they can actually use.

You claim untested and unproven with no evidence a lot, but the results are right here: [https://redirectmethod.org/pilot/#results]. They showed remarkably different results. Twice as good actually, in the targeted approach. So I don't know what to tell you. There is evidence, there are experiments, and there are real tangible results and effects on the public. The only question in my mind is at what scale do we allow that.
I'm not against app store operators demanding a service fee - but I've always been baffled that everyone seems to be ok with the amount of power Apple and Google have over the app economy.

If you're a tech startups engaging with end-users, right now there seems almost no way around offering an iPhone and Android app to accompany your product or service. There are whole sub economies where the app is the product.

Yet app stores are basically private property where the companies running the stores can set (and change) arbitrary rules and regulations. If a rule change means your app is no longer viable and that app was your product, sucks to be you.

Shouldn't at least the free market crowd object against a whole economy being at the mercy of two companies?
But I commented on one argument, which is that it's basically a fluke. But for some reason I keep seeing streams of reports of many different flukes. Are they all unrelated?

So if that AMA reddit thread describes working conditions where people don't want to drink water because they don't have time to pee, is it unrelated to reports of warehouse workers defecating thrash cans or drivers peeing in bottles?

One common thread there is that workers seem to have pretty steep quotas that don't tolerate breaks of any kind. Is then the situation of working next to a corpse at Amazon really comparable to a similar unusual situation in Luxembourg?
Or just set up an OTP then use the OTP to send new OTPs securely, boom.
I love generative art. I've only really dabbled in it myself, but if you want to see what professional-quality generative art looks like check out the work of Tyler Hobbs [0]. He uses the Clojure library Quil [1] to make his pieces, which in my opinion is one of the most fun and intuitive ways to make generative art.

[0] https://tylerxhobbs.com/
[1] http://www.quil.info/
> I have to ask, for anyone that cares this much, why bother with Windows at this point? Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux?

For me no it isn't. I am a nomadic VB/C# .NET developer and while most things now run cross platform flawlessly, there are many components that don't.

e.g. SQL Server is a major sticking point. Visual Studio on Windows has a concept of a SQL Server project. There is simply no cross platform equivalent. SQL Server projects typically serve two purposes 1. Let you easily develop a local database 2. Let you easily deploy your database changes (the deployment profile can be configured per environment that your organisation has).
But useful tools are built on fundamentals by way of insights.
Going to get downvoted for this, but:

As time (t) => infinity, social mobility => 0 in any society that has a highly mobile social system.

Those who are inherently predisposed to wealth and power and up in positions of wealth and power, and so do their children. As time goes on, the randomness of poor life environments gets washed out, and peoples children end up where they should (in the destiny sense). If we acknowledge that evolution is a real thing, then we should acknowledge that abilities and skill sets for moving up in society are genetic. Believeing in evolution without believing that peoples personalities and abilities are predetermined is illogical and nonsensical. We can keep playing the shell game of why things might be the opposite, but to me it seems really silly. Let's all run around concocting all sorts of theories about society and societal structure to hide the inconvenient and humiliating truth.

In saying this, I am saying nothing about welfare, who should get it and why, because I do believe in strong welfare systems. I believe in equal opportunity, I just dont believe in mass constructed and distributed veils.
If a thing can be done, some nontrivial number of people do it in production.

The number of people who do it in production is correlated with the complexity of the thing they are trying to do and how much the "fuck it, just do <some terrible idea>" relieves that complexity.
A professor of mine once referred to Wittgenstein as "Bertrand Russel, through a mirror darkly". I like the analogy, and wonder which of the two it would have annoyed more.
That is the complete opposite of my experience.

I have worked for a major music streaming service for a long time and publishing the app on iOS has been a constant pain.

Sometimes the app was not updated for months because apple would not validate it.

Each time the source of contention was that you could subscribe without using apple solutions (paying them) and that the subscriptions covered all platforms.
AMD CPUs should be cheaper to manufacture, because their chips are much smaller. Xeons are built using giant monolithic dies, so the defect rate per wafer matters a lot. EPYC processors from AMD are built using 9 separate chips under one package [1]: one I/O die and several chiplets with multiple cores each, so the yields should be much higher.

[1] https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13561/amd_rome-678_678x452...
>Paying back student loans seems like a bad idea, what if the Democrats win and forgive student loan debt?

You'll be left holding the bag....

This is an extremely bad way to think about handling your financial future. I feel like too many people engage in these risky bets not only with student loans, but also with investments. But consider, what if student loans are not forgiven? Here you would sit at, what? 40, or 45, not having paid anything on your loans. That's a horrible idea.

With all gambles like that, what's foremost in your mind should be:

"The market can stay irrational much longer than you can stay solvent."
Every user who bears the additional cost of the service because of freeloaders is a victim.
Replace the ring doorbell camera with a crazy complicated Node-RED flow
if some blockchain doofus says "but when the web started, did they predict Facebook in 1993??" then the answer is "E.M. Forster predicted Facebook in 1909."
Generally, when the government interferes with the market price of things, the result is a glut or a shortage, often with the emergence of a black market. If the price difference between the government price and the market price is large enough, criminal gangs step in to take advantage of the opportunity.
Well that's a very thoughtful question and I'm glad you made it. I literally woke up from sleep to answer it. Let me take them one by one.

> sketches are effectively extensions installed over quark, much like VS-Code extensions. They come with the same advantages, and drawbacks of being tied down to what the "platform" offers, the platform being Quark. If quark makes opinionated decisions on architecture, you're limited by it

I can see the concern there, but electron's API has been quite stable, at least since the past year. Also, Quark proxys electron's most common API's like creating dialog, notifications e.t.c So maintaining backward compatibility with electron's API is our headache.

> uncompressing to an in memory file system and using that as the app binary unnecessarily increases RAM/CPU footprint

Since Quark is designed for personal/prototyping projects, we are hardly talking in a few files here. Which would hardy take a few kilobytes. I would argue it is as efficient as other online IDE's.

> each "sketch" is likely to spawn it's own JavaScript node context.......

Yes you can compare it to a "new chrome tab". It only takes one process(by default, although you can spawn more) and memory mainly depending upon your DOM code.

As far as "same resource as a single electron app" comment goes. I made that in the context on having multiple electron apps installed on your machine. Even 2 electron apps on your machine could weigh about 600mb. On the other side, Quark with a 100 other sketches on your machine would weigh about 400mb (assuming 1 sketch=~1mb). Given the fact that these sketches have full functionality as of an electron app, I believe this was a reasonable statement to make. Now, I'm not talking about running all those sketches, all at once because that would be a whole different thing.
This was a pretty big Ford dealership for reference. The sales guy was laser focused on the max amount being paid per month. Every question was around that and most non-monthly payment questions were diverted unless it was directly related to the listed price.
I tend to only mess slightly with my .vimrc, but I get fancy in my .gvimrc for this reason.
> I would love to see Windows not take up 4 gigs of RAM out of the box. Let me uninstall Cortana please Microsoft. I'm sure there's other crap I don't want but I fear if I can't just hit 'Uninstall' it wont go well, or an update will bring it back.

So much misinformation in this and the replies that address this. Windows needs a minimum of 2GB RAM to run. But it scales its memory footprint according to the available memory. It will instantly swap this out when a demanding application is launched. For reference, on my Thinkpad with 8GB of RAM, Windows idles at about 3GB. On my PC with 16GB, it idles at around 7.5GB.
Two of my friends surprisingly told me they live paycheck to paycheck on salaries well into the six digit range. When I asked why, they both said "that's just how they've always lived." So having the discipline to save a little is clearly a challenge for them, despite having a very good income.