skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it is a cultural difference, but here in euw, in my country in particular, we usually use a similar definition for upper class and we call the class of the actually rich just like it, "the rich".
> I think this is misleading because I don't see someone making 3.5k as a single or 5.1k as a couple necessarily enjoying an upper class lifestyle

Exactly. Good luck buying a 3 room apartment in Berlin (outside the ring-bahn!!) even with 5.1k net without dramatically changing your lifestyle.
And having "grass roofs" would probably be better for the environment too.
"As recession signals go, this so-called inversion in the yield curve has a solid track record as a predictor of recessions. But it can take as long as two years for a recession to follow a yield curve inversion."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-watchlist-gra...
That flat looks perfectly fine, but not exactly a million euro home kind of nice. Are those prices representative? (I'm asking as a clueless American)
The bond interest payments are separate from the value of the bond. Which you can sell back at a greater premium and faster than even worrying about maturity.

This is the greatest bull market in bonds of all time and they are starting to behave like cheap deep in-the-money options contracts, which decline slightly in value over time due to theta (time value). Options are fun.
It’s like that comic with the dog holding the ball going “no take, only throw!”

“No purchase, only invest!”

At the end of the day the economy only works because it’s extracting profit from consumers, if the profit you’re extracting is money you lent them in the first place...where is the profit coming from? Hence the negative interest rates: you NEED them to take on more debt so they can even buy things from you to begin with. It’s the market itself saying “you need to give them more money”.
Reasons for human behavior aren't always good reasons... but they are reasons. If you are putting a judgment on their reasons, that in itself is a barrier to good teamwork. Their reasons might be bad, and might stem from their own personality flaws. But they are still the root cause of the problems, so you need to deal with them no matter how silly you may feel they are.

Sometimes people don't even know their own reasons, or don't realize what they are doing. This is where the squishy/warm fuzzy conversations help, as you can talk about what people are really feeling about the team and the work. Analytical folk aren't always good at such conversations, but think of every conversation with your co-workers as if it were a retrospective on your working relationship with them, and it will help.

So let us go through one of your example -- the boss mandates using a tech because he read an article. And you find it to be a bad choice for valid, analytical reasons. So you likely are approaching him with a "I'm right, you're wrong" attitude, and he may be responding with an underlying attitude of "Screw you, I'm your boss.", because he has a strong ego and you challenged it. So you both are annoyed and ungiving. Instead, maybe go in with a different approach of asking to understand why that tech helps the business, and truly listen to the answers, then compare/contrast your preferred tech with the reasons given. Then the conversation isn't about "Tech X is wrong", it is about underlying reasons and business needs. Which will be less likely to trigger defensive reactions from the boss.

Ultimately, you cannot change other people. But you can change your own approach to other people.
Market conditions have changed to the point where the yield curve is likely irrelevant, and markets will continue to moon indefinitely.
X-ray of Apple USB-C, follow up from yesterday
> the speed you’re travelling in absolute terms

There is no such thing. You always have to compare your speed to something else. Speed is calculated relative to something else. Relativity.
There's an essay on social class breakdowns in the US, which used the term "Working Rich" to describe people like doctors, lawyers, engineers. I thought that was a much more useful term than "middle" vs "upper" vs "upper-middle." Many such people are in the top 10% (depending on educational debt), but the label succinctly describes their relationship with money beyond simply deciding an arbitrary dollar amount.
Predicting the Next U.S. Recession
Let’s talk in 10 years and see if your cash will beat my S&P allocation.
100GB... amazing. How far we have come from the day when a enjoyable game fit on 2-3 3.5” floppy disks. :)

I’ve played some new games with amazing graphics. But 100GB? Is it mostly hi-res textures?
Believe this guy, he's the 7th top gamer.

The HDD bloat really stuck out to me when I looked at the upcoming WoW Classic Requirements - the current game requires 70 GB of space, but Classic requires 5GB. All games, even old ones trying to stay modern, require a huge amount of space.
How is that going to fly with a public company?
Mostly we're trying to get SF to rebrand as New New York.
This week I added two iPads to the massive pile that have come into our donation program locked and useless. But, miracle, I was able to find an email address for the donor.

It took me two goddam days of emailing instructions and encouragement to the owner to get them out of Find My Phone and unlocked for reuse. For ordinary folks the process is akin to AP Calculus.

Apple are the most craptacular, greedy, anti-environmental assholes on the planet. Of course they will protect service manuals and software with copyright.

I'm an Apple Developer with many commercial apps in the store. I started when Steve was CEO and I dearly loved and supported Apple for not being complete corporate assholes.

Now I'll die before I buy another Apple product. And they want to extend iCloud lock to laptops with a T2 chip.

Fuck them. Fuck those monsters.
Enabling Monitoring and Preventative Maintenance for Railway Stations
The Freedom of Choice
Creating a share structure like this makes me worry that the founders will continue to have a controlling stake in the company, and new investors won't be able to exert any influence over the company. Companies run by ideologues like WeWork often do a lot of things that aren't necessarily in the best interest of their investors (like banning meat from their offices). If the public investors have no power to reign that in, you're completely at the mercy of the founder.
I would say yes. Everything is not black and white and many things can be interpreted differently. That being said, I'm sure there are some arguments that could be made against this claim that not everything is subjective just to play devils advocate.
The food delivery startups, compared
Yup. Ozark Electric Cooperative in Fayetteville, AR started a gigabit ISP for all of its customers. 1 gb/s internet with no caps for like $80/month.

I was so sad when I had to move further north where there's only Cox.
Thanks for the clarification. This stuff can be clear and confusing at the same time.
Most people don't realize how well-off they are since in most cases, their income move at a similar pace to their expenses. A person making $500k may feel poor and complain to their peers simply on the basis that they are living in an area that is more expensive, eating an assortment of foods at a higher premium, buying a car 15x the average used car, etc.
None of that makes the statement "the Spiegel list removes books it doesn't like" correct in a meaningful sense of the word.

But I think I argued my point as well as I can. If I couldn't convince you yet that the original statement should not be considered "correct" and should not be defended when somebody mentions the actual facts, I don't think any more of my words will.
I hope they at least have a separate line for that. Apple folks are used to waiting in extra long lines anyway, right?
Government contractor, lots of work for the DOD, alphabet soup orgs, and other groups.

Doesn't have to be shady stuff, per se, like sometimes the Postal Service needs to update their infrastructure, etc.

But generally assumed to be government-y, so security + network + big data-ish stuff that allows them bill a lot and may or may not large scale graft from the taxpayer.
Not quite. The study includes a rent imputation on owned property in income, and I saw no indication that Kapitalerträge (interest, dividends, capital gains) are excluded from the income. Furthermore, university in Germany is basically free and there is government support for poor students (BAföG) [1], so graduate debt is not that much of an issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesausbildungsförderungsges...
That's where congestion control works.
I mean, you just managed to do it with just words alone.
Yeah, sorry, trying to be brief made my statement rather unclear.

Here is the conversation I frequently have in intro physics if relativity is included (it is this particular very common misconception I was trying to point out):

student: "So, time is relative because light(information) has a finite speed. Therefore, if a star at distance 1kly explodes 1k years ago, for us it happens today?"

me: "No, it is a bit more subtle. What you have said is true both for sound and light, but we do not talk about 'sound' theory of relativity, so there must be something more to light. Time is relative because light(information) has a fixed finite speed in all inertial reference frames. The star exploding and we observing the star explode are two different events. The time between these two events is measurable, it is 1k years in our reference frame for instance." (and then I go into how the space-time-interval is the thing that is constant, how these two events are always in the same order, how only in the reference frame of the photon they happen at the same time, how in another reference frame it might be 1year or 1M years, etc).
They were caught with one, that's enough. I am free and confident to interpret that as: The list is 100% made up.
This is a massive conflict of interest. It's been well publicized. But it seems wall Street doesn't care.
America’s Student-Loan Burden Is Getting Severe
You should be able to shift it by 45 minutes just by locating the solar generation in El Paso since it's 500 miles west of the major population centers and 700 miles from the eastern border.

Sunset in El Paso is at 7:51 today (mountain time).
Sunset in Longview is 8:05 (central time).

El Paso also has more reliable sunshine than Austin and Dallas and Houston.
Have fun wollen the VHS-like quality on a 4k screen.
I'd encourage anyone thinking of archiving/retiring their project to add it to the Code Shelter: https://www.codeshelter.co/

It's a community that aims to help take care of OSS projects when the maintainer no longer can.
That’s a great point you raise. Thanks for pointing that out.
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This question bothers me for some time already: why can't you guys just buy a washing machine?

Where I live everybody has one and we have salaries like 10x less than they have in US. And also flats are mostly tiny.

Taking you clothes somewhere to wash it sounds like first world nightmare to me.
They will create accounts on their friends phones, all of the apps have multi-user features now. I know what you are saying, but I eventually gave in and made some rules around everything, like unexpectedly asking for the phone to take a look at things, putting it in my room at night, etc. They (at least my kid) aren't diligent enough to cover up enough that you won't find out if anything is going on. Of course she then dropped it in the toilet.
They claim (or at least claimed) to be a bestselling list. This makes that claim obviously false.
ah sorry ignore, i'm mixing up two posts from the OP where he mentions his UK ISP which i must presume is different.
The study itself actually distinguishes upper class (Oberschicht) from the top income decile (which is what the research is about). At any rate, that's really a semantic issue and should not distract from the substance.
3, 5, and 0.72 meter resolution [0]

[0] https://www.planet.com/products/planet-imagery/
So we'll never have another recession? That's silly. All markets crash.
You can get a giant 4K TV for well under $1000. All of this moaning about not being able to tell the difference between 4K needs to die.
Yes, true but it is only beneficial to citizens if they get a smart dictator. Not like Berdimuhammedov. I have the impression that he is a clown who doesn't know what they are doing.
Whats the expectation here? That real estate will get 50% cheaper or that users will pay 100% more to rent an office?
I might translate it:

Tolerance: Simply Hard

(Or Easily Hard)

It more closely mirrors the German cadence and I've generally translated schwer as hard.
I always understood di­ffizil to be the correct translation of the word difficult.

Granted, I learned most of my German from my mother (plus a little self study and I lived there for nearly four years in my twenties), not in school. There are no doubt substantial gaps in my knowledge
Confidence: The Currency of Acceleration
> With frameworks like Python pandas, you always end up having to manually partition your data if it doesn’t fit in memory.

"Pandas Docs > Pandas Ecosystem > Out of Core" lists a number of solutions for working with datasets that don't fit into RAM: Blaze, Dask, Dask-ML (dask-distributed; Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow), Koalas, Odo, Ray, Vaex
https://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/ecosystem.h...

The dask API is very similar to the pandas API.

Are there any plans for ROOT to gain support for Apache Parquet, and/or Apache Arrow zero-copy reads and SIMD support, and/or https://RAPIDS.ai (Arrow, numba, Dask, pandas, scikit-learn, XGboost, spark, CUDA-X GPU acceleration, HPC)?
https://arrow.apache.org/
Treating pensions as capital is an interesting twist. Relatively accurate in one economical sense, but it's a bit of an edge case and not accurate in others.

Pensions are usually a part of the "social contract", and usually pensioners have only a few years of expected healthy life left. So in most cases, a pension is more akin to having decent savings than having enough capital to live off investment income perpetually. Also, crucially, pensions rarely pass on money to inheritors, and almost never enough that the inheritors can live indefinitely from the income.
They (We) does have mandatory enforced veganism, however.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-13/wework-te...
I'd go even further in the speculation. Have you seen how some Greeks today get upset at the thought the language of Homer did not sound like theirs? I think there is a similar phenomenon with many Chinese (I'm hoping the phenomenon is less general among scholars), where they think their ancient philosopher were all Confucianists. The ambiguity of the grammar does not help. Words can also be ambiguous sometimes, but that is less of a problem. There are ancient dictionaries. But have then a Chinese amateur interpreter tell you that door means family or that ghost means ancestor with disregard to both the context and the dictionaries, completely distorting the meaning of the text in favor of some bland conformist platitude, and you will soon start rethinking the meaning of Cultural Appropriation.
That, and other resources tend to get compressed less as bandwidth and storage becomes cheaper overall. Less compression means less load on already underpowered console hardware and more importantly, less memory used, high end games tend to max out their IO and outright memory map things straight from the disk.

GTA V on last gen was notorious for reading off the optical disk and HDD simultaniously to spend less time moving things around in memory.

Disk failures are a major reason for performance degradation on consoles and why putting SSDs into consoles is a very good idea.
Honestly I'd prefer an ARM or an 8086 or an AVR. I imagine I'd prefer a J1A too but haven't tried. The 6502 makes it a pain to do anything in any language higher-level than assembly, even C, and being 8-bit means you're constantly facing tradeoffs between making things fast or making them correct for more than 128 or 256 items.
Exactly. The substantive contribution is to peg a number to the top income decile. It doesn't matter what you call it (and the study itself is careful about that, distinguishing Oberschicht from top income decile).
The feedback from the interview was way beyond positive, they were a lot happy in general, the improvements / downsides were tiny nitpicks even according to them.

So, am I being low-ball'd? from the googling that I did so far anything above 75k seems for high experience maybe 10+ years, with the skills that I have. Should I negotiate further?
It’s about diversification and timing the market not simply holding cash for 10 years. I also just sold some stock, but I am still 75% in stocks.
No funding at the moment: researching on the side while working a main job. The older nodes for MOSIS were 350nm and 500nm. The fabs for these penny chips can be stone age in comparison. You're right that you don't need to go that far given the highly-reliable POWER's and Alpha's weren't built on stone-age nodes. Edit to add that, based on MHz I remember, the Alpha's were 350nm-500nm. Fits MOSIS well. :)

If you do a project, I suggest 350nm since it's the last node that you can visually inspect the resulting silicon. It's as fast as you go before you need electron microscopes and such. It's also more likely that the open tools for hardware will be able to handle such a node instead of deep sub-micron. Finally, there's old research in transistor-level optimization that might be applied to it in new, open tooling. Might let people do standard cell that inches a bit closer to performance and energy use of custom designs.
I think your argument is valid but there are other valid arguments too.

I work from home and drive very little. I still pay an equal (more than equal actually) share of taxes for road maintenance.

I have a cottage at the very end of a private road. I pay the same amount for 20km of road maintenance that the poor sap at the beginning of the road pays, and he only uses about 100 metres of it.

None of my kids go to school yet, but I pay for public schools.

Obviously this isn't a new debate, but I wanted to draw the parallel with pay-per-use vs. spooky socialism because I think internet access is no different.
I see this differently. This is a government document, but one that investors will read now and refer back to in the future. Why make it plain boring text when you can spin this document into a reason to invest?

This is an opportunity to tell the world who you are. Interested parties read these for a reason. It might as well look how you want it to look, as long as the same necessary content is listed.
Google has a culture problem that's destroying it from the inside
It depends on what you mean by "useful life."

Say you have a 300-mile EV which averages 3 miles/kWh for a full useful capacity of 100 kWh. If the battery degrades to half that capacity the car would only go 150 miles which I think most people would consider well past EoL (manufacturer warranties will replace a vehicle battery once it degrades to 75-80% of original capacity).

However that battery can still hold 50 kWh which would be enough to cover my home energy use for a week (I live in a small apartment and don't run my AC much). For stationary applications the "useful life" of a battery can be much longer than for mobile applications.
Because that's how flat rates work: Everyone pairs the same price for the same product and the losses due to bad actors or power users are caught by the majority of users who don't use the product that much.

Gym memberships work the same way.
> It costs pretty much the same to live in a tin shack with no running water or electricity and eat rice and beans for every meal everywhere.

No it doesn't. First of all, the price of land can vary wildly. One square meter in the middle of Amsterdam will be a bit more than a square meter in Bumfuck, Alabama. IF you can buy land at all, in some places you can only lease it (you could own a home, but not the ground it sits on). Then there's all kinds of taxes you'd have to pay, just for owning that piece of land.

A 19.5ft by 8ft parking spot in London was on the market a few years back for £350,000, and you won't even be allowed to build a shed on it, just park your car.

An empty lot without even a tin shack can cost more than a mansion, depending on location.
Under "Properties Leased to The We Company," this is very interesting:

"As of June 30, 2019, future undiscounted minimum lease payments under these leases were approximately $236.6 million, which represents 0.5% of the Company’s total lease commitments as of June 30, 2019."
My guess is that its due to comments like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695387
The use of the word "post" is my own colloquially imprecise language, the law actually states

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

So content indexed by google absolutely falls under the definition of "provided by another information content provider"
> Why make it plain boring text when you can spin this document into a reason to invest?

That's exactly what the document was designed not to do. It's meant to convey facts, not "spin." Why do we use plain boring text on a prescription label? So the important disclosure information is readily available to consumers in a consistent and uniform format. The same logic applies to SEC filings.
> the costs are proportional to the bandwidth

That's not how statistical multiplexing works.

If it was some sort of a natural law that shipping 1 byte cost $x on the margin, then the PSTN never would have survived the shift to unmetered long distance service. Somehow ISPs have been making big profits selling unmetered internet service during a period of hypergrowth. How is it possible that they didn't go broke during this process?

The real story here is that "power user" is a proxy for "cord cutter". If a residential user downloads 1TB per month, then they're a thoroughgoing "over the top" video consumer. The traffic patterns are different for streamers vs. pirates, but it's still people watching TV and not paying cableco for the privilege.

They're just doing price discrimination, rolling out bandwidth caps with punitive fees for violations, and waiting for the 4K frog to boil. Roll it forward, and you're back in the world of all you can eat at a higher price point. Cablecos don't really have to care how you split your bill between internet and video, as long as ARPU stays in the $70-$100 range. "Dumb pipes" are higher margin than cable channels, and don't need contract renegotiations with steely-eyed squeezers like Disney.

Let DIS roll their price increases out directly to consumers with their streaming channels, while you just sitting there running a toll road. It's like a regulated natural monopoly, without the burden of appropriate regulation. This is a nice business.

> If you want to know what unlimited bandwidth really costs, look at the price of the business plans.

The premium there is for uptime guarantees, better service, and a certain amount of legislative corruption (without which no discussion of telco/cableco practices would be complete). They are allowed to discriminate between commercial & residential customers, and refuse residential service to commercial addresses.