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Snarky comment about LLCs being able to shirk responsibility by just going bankrupt...

But really this seems like a basic class-action fraud suit on what they hoped would be a bootstrapped ponzi-scheme. (Spend enough, fast enough to get enough customers to be able to actually deliver your product) but not keeping at least enough money in reserve to make minimum refunds is a major liability.
Your statement was a lie of omission. They printed a much smaller amount, destroyed it shortly afterward, and then repeated that on several occasions until the total amount was about $415 billion. A reasonable person reading "the Federal Reserve has printed $415 billion since mid-September" would take it to mean that $415 billion was added to the monetary supply, which is not what happened. You're disingenuously leaning on how your words will be misinterpreted to stir up unwarranted hysteria about inflation and whatnot.
They provide good reasons for doing so [1]. I share your hope that "anything that has decent cryto and is not FAANG" will succeed and I would prefer it to be a federated system but I also see what moxie describes in the article.
Basically federation only works on a lowest common denominator. This means progress is very slow or impossible.
Comparing the current state of the Matrix ecosystem and Signal I find it a lot easier to convince friends and family to join Signal. After all, that is what makes a messenger useful.

Anyway I wish both projects the best of luck.

[1] https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Lived in China for a while. Us (admittedly, extremely white) American ex-pats had a very fratty attitude toward "the baij."

Maybe it's because we could only afford the cheap stuff — but any baijiu we got our hands on was really, really nasty. Only palatable with a 1:25 Sprite solution.
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Those who live in the visionary's future do not appreciate how extraordinary that vision was at the time.

So much of what you consider "normal tech" today seemed mind-blowing fantasy when predicted. In a world of 16,384-byte 4MHz computers communicating at 110 bits per second, high-res VR via multi-core multi-GHz computers networked at gigabit/s [0] was magic we didn't know how to comprehend. So much linguistic/cognitive representation was lacking that "futuristic" then sounds primitive/confused today. Once you grasp the context it was written it, you may see how insightful & innovative the works were.

[0] ...used to watch cat videos and argue with strangers.
> I would be very careful about making that large a generalization (that all else being equal, women would prefer to stay home over working).

Especially within earshot of my wife. Stuff like that pisses her off to no end, with good reason. She's smart and accomplished and very much enjoys the challenges of a professional career.
I would say DNS is more likely to be blocked than other UDP ports, to force the use of a specific DNS server (not uncommon on public networks).
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The primary rule of writing documentation is: Revise it, many times, on separate days. You need to keep coming back to it, reading it with a fresh mind that hasn't thought of what you wrote for at least half a day, preferably longer. What seemed perfectly clear yesterday will come across as ambiguous today. You keep revising until the changes get smaller and start to feel cosmetic.

Your job is to write concisely, using simple, unambiguous language that's quick to read and easy to digest. It's a skill that must be learned, practiced, and honed.

It's also a good idea to explicitly spell out the meanings of "must not" etc, because people (especially non-native speakers) sometimes get confused. Example: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...

It doesn't take up much room, but it saves a whole lot of trouble down the line.
There are other advantages such as build speed. Having local copies is simply faster.
I think you’re still missing the point. Whether the model is accurate or not is beside the point. A completely accurate model may indeed show a higher recidivism risk for an inner city kid compared to one from the suburbs. If it’s used in sentencing or other life-affecting decisions then it’s going to amplify historical injustices.

People commit more crimes when they have less opportunity. People have less opportunity when they grow up in high crime neighbourhoods. This is a negative feedback loop which was started by slavery and accelerated by segregation and redlining.

It’s not enough to use a hands-off approach. To correct the problem requires an active push in the opposite direction, to restore opportunity and break the cycles.

Edit: Think of it this way. You and some friends are playing Monopoly, drinking a few beers and having a great time. An hour and a half into the game (we all know games of Monopoly can last 4 hours or more), you discover one of your friends has been cheating. Now what?

He says "Sorry everyone! I'll stop cheating now and everything will be fine."

Is that true? Of course not. The proceeds from cheating may have been used to acquire the orange properties and maybe even put houses up on them. Every time you and the other friends land on those properties you end up paying rent to the previously cheating friend. Rent that he should not be collecting because those assets were acquired by cheating.

This is what it's like to have historical injustices continue to perpetuate into the future.
> The assumption is everyone considered for a loan has had a fair opportunity to reach the threshold to be approved

What? In what world is this assumption being made? Do we assume that every person was born into a stable household? That every person has the same IQ, the same height, looks, had the same lucky encounters with the right people whose needs intersected with their capabilities? There are countless dimensions along which people are not the same, why would you ever assume that whether or not someone gets a bank loan has taken into account every advantage or disadvantage they have been given?

A bank loan is a business transaction where the likelihood of you being able to pay back the loan at the prescribed interest rate is being determined based off of highly predictive features, that's it.

If you want to do corrective social justice, do it in a handful of places, and let the rest of the system operate off of sensible rules. Social justice cannot permeate every single decision made in our society, it is irreducibly complex even on a single decision.
Yeah but kids can smile and bond with you. Computers can't. It's hard work, but it's a bad idea to compare the two either way. One might come naturally to some people, even if they're (gasp) computer programmers.
Yes. Although their English was excellent, they thought that "you must not" meant "du musst nicht".
> In common parlance, that means checking who's calling you before deciding if you'll take the call, which involves Caller ID. [2]

Not true! "Screening your phone calls" in those days meant waiting for someone to start leaving a message on your answering machine, which you could hear in the room in real time [0], and then only picking up the phone if it was someone you wanted to talk to.

[0] Messages weren't left on a server that you'd access later. They were recorded on a physical tape in your house. You could hear the person leaving the message as they did it.
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SIDE NOTE: curious -- it says 4 comments but I only see one at time of me writing this. Thanks.
Why disparage collectors by conflating them with hoarders?

I purchase books both to read and to collect if they are well-made pieces of art.

It seems you have something against collecting such things based on how you frame your comments though. I personally do not understand the desire to disparage another person because you do not see value in collecting books.
Totally agree. And he's talking about WWII, a war the US was actually attacked in and defended itself, not a war purely for profit like Afghanistan. So knowing this, and you don't need to be a genius to understand his argument, why are we still honoring and thanking people for their "service," when their service is just to get a few people rich? Maybe we ought to consider that without the millions who are willing to fight and die to make a few people rich are part of the problem themselves, useful idiots. And maybe we need to respond to their actions in a more genuine way: with contempt and disdain. After all, all of our armed forces are volunteer based so no one is conscripted to kill for profit. The simply choose to. For their own little profit (free tuition, salary, pension, etc.) and for the profit of their billionaire masters. It's about time we stop glorifying war and the people that participate in it voluntarily.
cough Datomic cough: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Datomic-Database-Value/
Having nothing useful to do day after day is not an awesome lifestyle. It is depression inducing, lowers your confidence and self respect. You are becoming increasingly pointless. Not just makes you feel dependent, but also actually makes you dependent. On one hand, you feel like a taker and useless and golddigger, so you are restraining yourself from asking what you would consider normal had you worked. On the other, partner feels like contributing more too.

It all has actual consequences. Lastly, I remember reading stats about domestic violence rates going down when economics changes so that women earns more or males less. It goes up when it changes other way.

You assume horrible office that expects you to work 60 hours a week. Somehow it is ok for men to work in that horrible office? Why don't men push to work less to actually be with family? Like, man getting to be actually a father and not just a wallet for family?
well, somehow the society at large has no problem with exactly opposite generalization: that women prefer to work over staying home with their kids.

It is an individual matter, I agree. With most women definitely having the preference of staying at home. But for that the right partner is needed, i.e. one who provides enough resources for her and her kids. If this is not present she will go to work. We decided as a society to frame it different just not to face difficult truth, which is society becoming poorer. It's just so much easier to say that somehow nowadays women prefer working to following their maternal instinct.

As a man you are wired to compete with other males for resources to be brought to your partner and offspring. I'm sorry but this is just how it works. Women define male attractivness based on his socio-economic status. Of course if you don't want your wife (and other females and society at large) to look down at you, you will eventually go back to work and work your ass off. She on the other hand, can but she doesn't need to. It's not like you or pretty much anyone will look down at her for not working. Current social fashions aren't going to change five milion years of evolution of the species.
> While it’s admirable for companies to fill the day-care vacuum, the absence of a national solution is an indictment of American policy.

California is very different from Vermont which is very different from Mississippi. It doesn't make any more sense for the three to have identical child-care systems than it does for Denmark, Italy and Lithuania.

I don't find his argument that only the federal government is large enough to capture the upside particularly compelling, and his straw-man counterarguments are … strawmen.

Moreover, it's also important to understand what the second-order results of any state child-care policy are. While parents do mistreat their children, I am reasonably sure that child-care workers mistreat children more often. If so, a child-care policy which substitutes non-parent care for parent care will likely result in increased rates of mistreatment.
Things would slowly change on an economy-wide basis as firms start exploiting any governance method that results in superior promotion decisions. The natural monopolies like Google would be the slowest and hardest to change, but most of the economy doesn't consist of them.
I think you're confused between FaaS and Serverless. Serverless is an Amazon service, Firebase is not serverless, however both are FaaS. I'm talking specifically about AWS Serverless.
Hence the correction in the footnote.
It really comes down to the ratio. Our state has a 4-1 ratio for infants (which is entirely reasonable). You are basically paying for 1/4 of a person's time. If you want to put them into a daycare where the worker is adequately paid, that's $6000 a year alone, let alone overhead costs for facilities/admin.

No matter who pays for it, raising children is time consuming. And time is becoming more valuable.
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Use recursive partitioning to guess someone's political opinions at a party
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> The dirty secret is that most women work because they HAVE TO. It's not a choice.

My anecdata is quite opposite. Women having remorse for leaving children in child care, but they can't stand staying at home. They feel lonely.
If she did have a career she wanted to continue, the calculation is pretty strong on the 'riding it out until school'. You have to count ALL the salary you are going to make for the next 30-40 years of working, because sitting out for 5 years will have an effect on your income your entire career.
I'll take the extra $3k over spending it on achieving nothing in the middle east.
I'd interpret these results with a grain of salt. They are, after all, culturally (and circumstantially) bound. If making money wasn't so important to raising kids, then women might express quite different preferences in partners. I believe there is some evidence for this if you look at mate preference in nations with more social support.

Just anecdotally, women seem to be interested in men who excel in some area, not just in salary. Successful musician's, artists, scientists, etc all do pretty well, even if they aren't top earners.

I guess what I'm cautioning against is reading your "studies" as suggesting that women don't find lower earners "sexy." Much simpler economic circumstances could plausibly explain the higher rate of divorce.
I'm not sure this is the strongest case you could make for saying this ought to be the responsibility of the government. If people can make more working than childcare costs, then they can make their own decision about how to invest their own time and money. Why does the government need to pay for this, if they argument is ultimately that the wages of women now working is what ends up paying the cost of the service?

I am generally not one to rail against the government running efficient programs for general welfare, I support single payer healthcare in the US and many progressive policies. I do however think we need to consider the line where anything you buy has the government involved in re-distributing resources to make it cheaper for people with less money.

Ultimately, it might be good to allow economic forces to produce an economy again where single income households can afford to raise children, regardless of the gender of the parent who is earning an income. More work doesn't always mean societies or families ended up better off, parents spending time raising kids should not be seen as just sunken cost because we could have gotten tax money out of them.
It's been 32 years since the world pledged to fix the ozone layer
Sounds like this is the root issue, and not significantly about package managers.

No one is willing to invest the time to untangle the build process and fix compat issues in the software. The project is slowly dying out.
> it makes your database less of a black box, and it basically becomes ok to destroy it - because you can so easily make a new snapshot and go back to how it was before.

There are some extremely serious caveats here that need mentioning. A production DB is typically taking application writes 24/7. Restoring from a snapshot would cause data loss of any writes that occurred after the snapshot and before the restore.

You would need to also stop prod traffic and then replay the binary logs beginning from the same point as the snapshot, but that can be complicated if you're trying to reverse some DDL operation that is inherently incompatible with the transactions in the binlogs.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, your tool's invocation of mysqldump is not using the --single-transaction option. Without that, mysqldump doesn't create consistent snapshots for InnoDB tables. This means what you're dumping and restoring doesn't actually represent a single valid point-in-time of the DB's state.
I think the parent comment is saying that his paternal instinct is clashing with society and culture.
I mean, you've effectively described Facebook's news feed so I don't think HN needs to build it.
Only impressive thing here is that you managed to miss the context of the thread.

We are talking about using "nootropics to help increase mental acuity and focus". In that sense, amphetamines will make up for lessened mental performance that you may have due to bad diet or lack of exercise.
I'd heard of __slots__ long ago but I didn't know enough to use it. The example is good!
> The two do not correlate well. They correlate very badly.

Do you have any evidence? It seems to be working rather well for the companies that follow these practices.

You may speak derisively of "leetcoding" but it does demonstrate persistence, grit, speed of thought, and/or the ability to learn something difficult (algorithms, data structures, competition-style programming). It's not crazy to posit that people who are able to learn one hard thing well will probably also learn other hard things well. In fact, it should be the other way around. Why in the world would someone hardworking and intelligent not be able to pick up new skills?

To me it's absolutely insane that being good at architecture and good at algorithms and data structures are seen as mutually exclusive skills. They're not skiing and barbecuing.

Now I'll concede that Leetcode-style interviews are a terrible and stupid way for smaller companies to hire, because they don't have the candidate pipeline of a Google or FB or Amazon. But it isn't a wrong approach in and of itself. If that's true, someone should be making bank by hiring all the scores of talented devs that the megacorps reject for not being good "Leetcoders".

Plus, surely you're aware that the megacorps also have system-design interviews for all but entry-level candidates? That's where you're asked about architecture, tradeoffs, and high-level design decisions.
might be a bit of a wildcard, but i would consider checking out Factorio. may god help your kid if he actually gets into it though
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You're accusing someone with their own search ad agency of writing low quality content for SEO purposes? Why, I never!
that a model could easily mistake race as a causal factor.

Statistical models as used in real world systems don’t have a concept of a “casual factor”. It literally doesn’t matter for the model why in certain zip codes, there is more property crime. It doesn’t care if it’s caused by poverty of residents, by pigmentation of their skin, by lead in the paint, or by the cultural traits of residents. All it cares about is the correlation: if the risk is higher, the insurance premiums go up too. For some it might seem unfair, and for some groups such statistical discrimination might be illegal (though not for all, eg. it’s perfectly legal to charge men higher insurance rates, which suggests that the moral principle here is not equality, but rather compensation for historical mistreatment), but without a doubt, from the model’s and business perspective, such reasoning is undoubtedly correct.
As others have pointed out it is obvious at the outset what ads cost, and you can set budgets. None of this should have come as a surprise or a "opps we spend 150K in one day" kinda thing.

I am assuming their line of thought was:

1 - make some sales

2 - spend income from step 1 on more ads to drive traffic to site

3 - go to 1

Kinda like they put themselves into their own recursive ad-pyramid-scheme or something.

Condolences for the customers who go burnt by this.
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In cold areas, every rental unit's parking spot comes with a power outlet so that you can plug in your car's block heater. So it's possible.
The US consumer was massively expanding (mostly) his credit during the 50s-80s. This is the American "Golden Age". There's no further room to expand credit -- we tried it in mid 90s-00s and it didn't work out.

There was never a time anywhere in the history of the world where one working man could work a low-skilled laborer's job and comfortably provide for a family of four.
>thinly veiled expression of xenophobia about the Japanese.

while that is an unfortunate and awful aspect of one its central aesthetic tenants, i do not think that it is the core.
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While they are a nice read, I had the impression his stories didn't age well in terms of technology.

A fax machine in a car?
There was certainly an anti-Japanese streak to cyberpunk, which hasn't held up well. But what was more important was that cyberpunk predicted was a future in which the real power was held by giant international tech companies rather than governments. That is basically the world that we live in.
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This is just a guess, but in America basically all taxes are taken at the federal level. It's easier to move that money around then add on state taxes.
It makes perfect economic sense: it's a simple supply and demand curve. Increasing the number of workers decreases their value. The only confounding factor is whether the increase in workers increases the speed at which the economy grows/ I'd guess it probably does, but not enough to offset the downward pressure on wages.
Ahh I see, a parasitic relationship.
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> It seems like they were “hacking” their way to quick success instead of focusing on delivering a proper product

Generally - not specifically - speaking, in a world where your competitors can throw away millions of VC dollars into hacking their way to quick success and market share, this is a valid strategy. It may, in fact be the optimal strategy.

Of course, if you don't have said millions of VC dollars to throw into that game, then you're not going to meet much success by trying to play it.