skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only half of those over 55 have any retirement savings [1], the other half have no retirement pennies to speak of.

While not great for online discussion, I can understand where the sentiment comes (the evidence is clear older generations strip mined the country economically [and continue to do so], pulled the ladder up behind them, and then are shocked when younger citizens are resentful).

[1] https://www.gao.gov/assets/680/670153.pdf
Harrison Bergeron[1], for those who don't know. A wonderful short story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
All of the Hard Core History podcasts are incredibly informative and in-depth. Definite recommend.
I've recently been trying a podcast called sleep with me, it basically takes this approach, about an hour of deliberately not very coherent narration
Should engineering metrics align to business KPIs?
That's kinda what they did - they gave $600/week to every unemployed American, on top of what the state was giving them. Problem was, a lot of it just went into the stock market, and from there into the pockets of wealthy stockholders.
US or international banking sanctions on the Russian controlled part of Ukraine might make that impossible.
Even on cloud - What do you think about running shared infrastructure (multi tenancy) vs running every customer on separate instance managed by us?
Interesting, and I think I've heard that before, but your source doesn't seem that great.
I had the same issue, emailed the moderators using the "Contact" link in the footer, and got a response quickly. Recommended.
> the modernist interpretations of reformers in the 19th and 20th centuries

E.g. Brahmo Samaj, that sort of thing? What other reformers you have in mind?

I'm curious where would you put Aurobindo in this context. He's definitely "modernist", but he stuck to the Vedas quite a lot.
Let that be a lesson: do not spend all your money at once. Buy chunks of stocks (etfs) periodically.

Im sure the result would be much better then.
My gut feeling is that this falls apart if you try to work in the current Western work culture and rent or pay a mortgage in the current land ownership culture (especially in a major city). The kind, pace and quality of work you would do whilst simultaneously homeschooling doesn’t mesh with the current work culture. I’m fairly sure that if you could successfully homeschool whilst working, you’d have to work/produce more on local problems; have a more blended work-life balance (mixing work and non-work more freely); deadlines likely would have to be longer; you’d probably want to priorities craft and quality over mass distribution.

I find these ideas appealing, but I think you need to rip the innards out of capitalism to achieve it.
HN is a global community. Quite a few people here are in countries where legitimate DVDs/Blu-rays are not available locally. If a person were to try to order them from Amazon, the shipping fees would be enormous, and the package may get stuck in customs and require further payment to get it out. In fact, some online shops (like Criterion) will not even ship abroad, because they have licensed the content for a DVD/Blu-ray release only in North America or some other limited geographic region. Consequently, it is no surprise that many ardent cinephiles turn to torrenting (or buying a release from the local marketplace that is going to be a pirated copy anyway) even if they would have liked to build up a physical collection.
To really show how much "everything is a string" in Tcl, I love the "sum a list" one liner:

set a [list 1 2 3 4]
set sumValue [eval [join $a +]]

[join $a +] produces a string "1+2+3+4" from the list {1 2 3 4} which you then evaluate to find the sum. Note that you do not need quotes around the +, tcl by default treats everything as a string.

Another example:

set b a #b now contains the string "a"
set a 5 #a now contains the string "5"
set var5 Steve #var5 containst the string "Steve"

puts $b #write the value of b to the console: "a"
puts $$b #writes "5" to the console
puts $var$$b #writes "Steve" to the console
This sounds really interesting; can you elaborate on it at all?
But their lowest tier of VPS caps out at $5 a month

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
What percentage of the revenue of American commercial shipping activity would that be? 1%? 10%? 50%? I'm curious if America felt forced to act because the tributes were literally breaking the bank, or of it was just a cost/benefit analysis(ie we pay $2M/yr but we can blow up their fleet for a one time cost of $3M), or an ethical one.
If Bitcoin is like ham radio, then Ethereum is more like the early internet.
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I think part of the burnout is the fetishization of "coding." This concept that you have to be cranking out code to be productive is frankly untrue and unhealthy. The thing that software engineers do is solve problems and a lot of their day can be spent thinking about solving the problem and that's perfectly productive. I'd rather spend six hours thinking about a problem and an hour implementing it, than blindly write code for hours because I haven't spent time considering how to approach the problem.

Management and administration, though, can be just as taxing. It's a lot of people interaction, which can be draining. It's also a job where you have to keep a bunch of balls in the air without dropping them. I've done a little of both as anchor/lead in previous roles and it's draining to do either and especially draining to do both (but extremely rewarding).
I've used Nim just a bit on Windows/MingW (I'm from python world). The very short program I made (about 200 lines, mostly math stuff, no framework imports) compiles in 2-3 seconds. It's already too long for me to iterate (it's not a rant against Nim, it's just that it's too long for my way of working; the language is nice and gives good results). Also note that Nim compiles fast, it's the compile-to-native compilation step that takes 90% of the time.
I think the argument that doing fake reviews on Amazon is 'bad behavior' or something to feel guilty about is laughable.

Amazon is one of the most well capitalized businesses in the known history of the universe. Their credibility is not a public good. I think siphoning off value from the Moloch of Bezos's empire is probably a net societal good.
Please don't break the site guidelines with "This is bunk" and other such swipes:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Especially with any damage done by typing random letters trying to figure out what is going on.
Well, combination of the lead in x86 architecture (a lot of times close to 100% of market supply) combined together with lead in manufacturing (first in process shrink down to 14nm) was unique and highly unlikely to be repeated.

Commoditization of architecture (ARM seems to be in the lead by RISC-V might go up) plus separation between chip design houses and manufacture fabs seems to be more efficient market solution. Where it leaves Intel?
This is true when viewing from an external currency. If I only care about the nominal value of the S&P500 or the nominal price of oil/copper/steel/aluminum/Gold in dollars. Then the nominal price can inflate indefinitely.

Historically no one has been able to inflate assets, without inflating the real economy. If the Fed's QE approach is having this effect then even as a dollar spender you would want to hold assets above all else.
Even if it wasn't, I bet the experience of the internship would be worth more than the cost of a personal VPN. Unless the internship didn't really provide much value.
I am not against forking or introducing modifications, etc.... You can fork it, change it for your use case as you wish, but just don't bundle my work, rebrand it and sell it as if it were yours. I meant my work to be free and I want the legal protection to keep my work free.
Are you sure about the German stock market? I've googled and found this https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CDAX-Kursindex.png
In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches.
is there not an flang project? Is it any good?
> a large majority of HN either earns money via tracking ads

Have you ever seen any numbers on HN users jobs? I’m continually surprised by the diverse roles of domain experts that appear in threads. I guess I’m hoping you’re wrong.
I don't understand why you think he's an SEO guy? Is he scraping content to build his marketplace without seller consent? Would Etsy be an SEO guy in your mind?
Financial advisors study for months and are legally required to pass tests before giving financial advice. It’s not like one day you’re at radio shack and the next you’re a cfa/cfp.

Series 7, series 63, cfp, cfa, etc. when you get a job at fidelity you literally just go to class and study 8 hours a day for a few months.

Also you were asked sales rep questions, not actual advisor questions.
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this is precisely right and why nobody should ever buy a bitcoin under any circumstance.
Is it ok if simply I point you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality and urge you to read the book (it's quite short)?
>> It in fact would be perfectly valid and good to implement AVX-512 with a 256-bit unit that takes twice as long to run 512-bit width instructions. This completely negates all his points about die space utilization right from the start - AVX-512 support does not imply a significantly larger use of space than previous AVX instructions.

The extra registers have to be there even if the execution unit is half size. The context switching overhead grows, which is something kernel developers care about. And then with all these variants there's a push to have a single binary support them all which complicates the code too. Meanwhile the world is moving toward parallelism which is going to mean more thread creation and context switching.

Linus does have valid concerns here.
Getting access to private trackers is non-trivial. Hell, I used to be on waffles.fm and lost my invite and getting access since then has been impossible.

Usenet and sickbeard have been adequate replacements since then.
I have to disagree with you on several points:

1. Schools are ranked by test scores mostly, which is 99% dependent on the education and income of the parents. Even then housing near schools with excellent test scores isn't expensive except in the most expensive cities in the US.

2. I totally agree about the healthcare system though it has become a lot better since ACA. Healthcare is still disgustingly expensive but at least you can still get it and if you have a normal middle income in a family with a couple kids then healthcare is essentially free.

3. Requiring two incomes is much riskier than just one. Of course living from one income and saving the other is the best, but most people don't do that, and it's harder to do if you are both working since it costs so much money to work. Not working is cheaper. Take a look at Elizabeth Warren’s book, The Two-Income Trap. It explains this paradox much better than I could.
does numpy leverage blas?
Security through obscurity is best here. Just shift all the digits of your key by some secret (but very simple) algorithm and store in google drive.
nobody should ever buy a bitcoin under any circumstance for exactly this reason
TCL is fat,slow,and lacks staying power. — (SIOD author) George Carrette, 1994

At least we could direct people who wouldn't see the light towards Python at that stage.
So people with no collateral are SOL?
Run devcontainer outside of Visual Studio Code
Two years ago, I wrote an LLVM compiler pass that automatically upgrades SSE or AVX-2 code to AVX-512 when those instructions are available. It's helpful for getting performance gains for hand engineered code that you don't want to touch. We saw some good gains on integer workloads (unpacking, useful for databases - something I'd call "regular code"): 1.16x speedup going from SSE to AVX-2, and 1.43x speedup going from SSE to AVX-512. Even better speedups are available for FP workloads, though hand-writing the AVX-512 version can work a lot better since programmers can exploit the full range of new instructions available in AVX.

https://www.nextgenvec.org/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02816
I see, the type system cannot ensure logic bugs, specifically with an applied example of the visual aspect of an application. Got it. Thank you for expanding on it!
exactly.

stay far away from bitcoin.
I think the simple explanation here is money parked in millennial 401k accounts. If a millennial gets laid off, they collect unemployment.....none I know would dare mess with their 401k.

Kind of crazy it's socially acceptable for the finance world to slice & dice & profit off the life savings of an entire generation while transferring any risk taken back to taxpayers.
I’m going to guess that the real AAA card would have your actual name on it.
I don't think Pigz decompresses in parallel.
> While stocks may have some intrinsic value, it is commonly acknowledged that their value as assets is substantially lower than their stock market price. Moreover companies continue to buy their own stocks further reducing the value of stocks as assets.

This is not really relevant. Companies have larger market caps than their intrinsic assets because people trade on discounted cash flow.

> Any small players (yes that means you and me) can easily lose their shirt in a down turn as we do not have reserve assets or other means (hedge funds) and are not able to participate in the next hand.

1. There's no mechanism that forces you to "call" a bet in investing. It's not winner takes all.
2. Why can't you allocate your bond/equity split such that you do have reserve assets?
Software is centered in Silicon Valley, entertainment is centered in Los Angeles, and ageism is rampant in both industries. It's not surprising that a culture of plastic surgery would emerge here compared to a place like New York, whose main industry is finance (where being perceived as older isn't nearly as much of a career headwind).
By that standard, this article would not be about a legacy system since it turned out to be easily maintainable.
> "Today in the United States the black and even the migrant can aspire to a level of professional treatment which would have been unthinkable two generations ago, and which seems grotesque to most people in the Third World"

"The black"? "The migrant"? Really?

Instead of this "helping the poor hurts them" bullshit, learn about how white people in the United States stole from blacks, again and again, to keep them from building generational wealth and stability:

https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/128211865715026330...

I'm sympathetic to the idea that there are problems with modern schooling (quantity != quality), but this guy just wants to pretend white people and the wealthy/middle class have no obligation to build a healthy society that functions well for everyone.
How are these cameras hacked then? It's a choice by the user(some setup)?
I think you have this partially wrong. The crypto boom of 2017 was mostly fueled by people buying ETH in order to do ICOs.
When I was a kid, perhaps 10, I imagined a perpetual motion machine and summoned my brother at that moment to demonstrate it. Just as I was about to show him proof of eternal unpowered water circulation, I realised it wasn't going to work.

So this guy, maybe he's highly intelligent but how much common sense?
tks @mmmateo! I'm also thinking more of allowing them to manage their own "things", whatever they may be. presently i'm leaning towards something like a CMS, with some kind of storage (s3? or something else?) that backs it. I did not look at the source, but this would be something like a gatsby with a front end, so much more new-dev, wannabe-dev, or partime-dev friendly.
good for him. hope he can hold out for a couple years...
From an 1841 speech to the British House of Commons on the dangers of increased copyright times:

At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot… Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create.

Source:https://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/07/24/macaulay-on-copyr...
Fiddle (fiddle.io) is a great option also. I'm the technical cofounder of Fiddle. Fiddle is much cheaper than stitch, (no contract & month to month) and has advanced inventory features for brands and manufacturers. Fiddle stands out if you are doing kitting/bundling, assembly, or anything to do with a bill of materials. We also have a nice Shopify integration.
Was more of a general rant, sorry if it came across personal :/
> Illich wasn't against school per-se.

There's a recording of a teacher asking how to infuse lessons from deschooling into her classroom and his response is basically "you can't". He's actually a bit rude about it tbh.

Illich was opposed to schooling. He would have said he was in favor of "education". Nailing down what that would mean on the scale of a society, aside from learning webs, is a bit elusive.

I think Illich provided a fantastic prognosis of certain problems but didn't develop workable solutions.
Where is the pressure for Apple to beat the GPU performance of AMD or Nvidia going to come from though? Game consoles are stalwartly back on x86 for at least another generation (Xbox Series X, PS5), so AAA developers will have even less pressure for ARM ports and especially macOS-specific ARM ports. Apple may be hoping for more "bottom up" ports from iOS/Apple Arcade, and ARM macOS will make that easier, but games ported up from mobile don't seem particularly like a source for parity with AMD/Nvidia, much less a source for innovative competition "fight".
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I was unschooled, unschool my son and will continue to as we have more kids. AMA.
I was referring to the relative comparison being made with clay brick, the same comparison the article was making.

Of course, there are even better alternatives, like building your home out of solar sequestered carbon solids, i.e. wood.
I think a lot of HN readers write software that is hosted somewhere, so the users never see the code. Thus, copyright provides us no protection. (I suppose the ex-employee could always take the code and start their own competing service, so copyright does have some value.)
Totally agree, but I believe anyone who has lots of money, and wants to defend they have money because they are smart and successful should realize that merely being a consumer isn't a very impactful way to contribute to society. Using piles of money to just scale up being a consumer to an absurd level is stupid.

I also think I wouldn't shed a year if Rolls Royce went out of business. There are manufacturing, design, welding jobs out there on markets that actually make sense to scale up. Some things in life you can currently buy don't provide enough value to justify them existing at all. They simply exist as a middle finger to everyone with less, propped up by the idiots that but them.

I'm not saying make anything illegal, I'm saying I judge people who support this and would encourage everyone else to do the same.
Why does that make investing fine?
Absolutely. It almost seems like they were made for each other.
At least they're up front with their conclusion.
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I’ve run into errors compiling the Erlang VM before (just doing some Linux package management). If I casually ran into these types of issues on x86, I’m skeptical this really has anything to do with Apple Silicon, which is ARM after all.
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Compiler Explorer (aka godbolt) is awesome; I use it at least weekly.

It's amazing how many more code generation questions occur to me now that there's so much less friction in getting the answers.
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Dark Web reviews are linked to purchases. you can't just had a load of fake reviews without completing a transaction which means you have to pay a fee to the darknet site. So it is possible but it can be expensive, the easy option is to run a legitimate service and then at some point you could just start taking people's money and not providing the service. Of course this has a limited shelf life, because new reviews are going to be a positive
Care to define TINA?
And I just noted that that fact would explain the massive proportion of women and black people in the tech workplace.
I thought the whole point of "index funds" was that they are not "actively managed" by a human fund manager. They should just automatically track the index (with some minimal tracking error).
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So you're saying that we need to solve organizational stupidity by complicating all chips for everyone so that bad organizations can get a performance boost on specialized tasks?

What percentage of consumers with these chips installed do you think are getting a performance win? Do you think it might be as high as 1%?

Do you think that the same resources devoted elsewhere might be worth more than 1% to that 99%? Whether that is in reduced cost, reduced bugs, or a boost for more widely used operations.

Yes, if you target a specific use case for a specific set of people, you can give them a nice win. But you shouldn't lose sight of the fact that CPUs cover a lot of use cases for a lot of people. And simplifying then focusing on the core mission is better for everyone in the end.
What this article misses is that Bitcoin is not a protocol but a name. You might say a currency. Let me explain:

The dollar started as a gold backed piece of paper with a certain type of look.

At that time, nobody would have accepted a payment via credit card with today's fiat dollars.

But today, we still pay in "Dollar". Even when no paper at all changes hands.

The same can happen to Bitcoin. All kinds of future protocolls might be used to transfer "Bitcoins". These future "Bitcoins" might coexist with current "Bitcoins" during the transition phases.

In fact, in the early days, the Bitcoin protocol did change. But the "wealth" of each holder was preserved.

Saying "Bitcoin isn't going to become a mainstream kind of money. It's too awkward for most people." is like someone 30 years ago saying the dollar must be replaced with a different currency because eventually people will pay digitally instead of moving paper around.

"Bitcoins" are not bound to a certain technology.

"Ham radio" is a technology.
One of my side businesses is https://icryptonode.com/ that sells monero-specific hardware and software. Monero is even clunkier to user than Bitcoin for a bunch of reasons, but over the years has been getting easier.

Unfortunately, a lot of the ways to make it easier (remote nodes, fully-synced transaction history by a cloud service) severely curtail the privacy element. But it still makes it easier to invest and transact in, if you aren't super worried about privacy.

All being said, I love Monero, and its community is exceptional. If you go to DEFCON in Las Vegas, be sure to visit the Monero room!