skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumption is easy to measure but just because poor americans eat out and have iphones doesn't mean they have higher quality of life.

Also that second website you linked is a Koch "think tank" aka propaganda vehicle, lol
Ask HN: What companies should I join if I want to bootstrap a SaaS on the side?
And eventually make enough off of it to leave the job?
Hm, I wonder how you reconcile this with the other summary finding that

> the real median earnings of full-time, year-round workers increased 0.8 percent between 2018 and 2019

Seems like this is the wealth gap, coupled with an increase of the proportion of females working full-time in the workforce.

> The number of females who were full-time, year-round workers increased by about 1.2 million between 2018 and 2019, while the change for their male counterparts was not statistically significant.

Reminds me of Simpson's paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
not to mention that VR is a completely new type of media, so not just games but virtual environmental presence which is gonna be a big deal in a world where carbon footprint and pandemics will make things like traveling for a festival become more expensive or impossible.

Again, why would FB want be the company that does that?
Case study in importance of maintenance.

1 broken century-old hook => $16,650,000,000 damages.
The electrons are spinning counterclockwise. They should be spinning clockwise. Or the picture is upside down.
Hwo We Build an HTAP Database That Simplifies Your Data Platform
This was a Virgin Atlantic 747 (Hong Kong - London). I have a Surface Book 2 which I know has an unusually low-powered power supply (such that gaming will drain the battery even when plugged in), but given how much power sockets are now normal and expected, I'd be surprised if they couldn't handle most laptops.
Ask HN: Deterministic Transactions KV/DBs in RAM
Non-deterministic transaction ordering is well reviewed in [2]. Summary: DBs may reorder transactions because getting read/write sets, locks, or I/O timeouts will block some transactions, but others can proceed. This way average throughput is higher.

Calvin [4], reviewed in the Morning Paper [3], builds on [1] & argues for a deterministic ordering of transactions. It's advantages are:

- no two phase protocol, which is I/O heavy

- no logging of physical layout of CRUD changes made to disk by disk. Need only log transaction inputs

- Calvin's sequencing and scheduling layer can be bolted onto any CRUD API over storage

I would draw reader's attention to [4, pg4]:

"Calvin divides time into 10-millisecond epochs during which every machine’s sequencer component collects transaction requests
from clients. At the end of each epoch, all requests that have arrived at a sequencer node are compiled into a batch. This is the
point at which replication of transactional inputs (discussed below) occurs."

So whereas it avoids other problems, the implication is that no transaction can complete in than the less epoch time. That'd be too bad, because an all in memory DB or KV can't be stalled by disk ... I rather hoped Calvin could be considered for low-latency KV store given I could bolt storage underneath it.

Did I miss something?

Note that unless one falls back to OCC, or goes VoltDb and support transactions on single partitions only, there is no way to avoid locking in deterministic transaction scheduling because that's single core work.

[1] https://github.com/yaledb/calvin

[2] http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/papers/determinism-vldb10.pdf

[3] https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/29/calvin-fast-distributed-transactions-for-partitioned-database-systems/

[4] http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod12.pdf
This is a very accurate summary of the US social safety net. It’s very large, but some European countries spend more. But it’s also a bit of a bureaucratic mess and not that easy to navigate.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.
What would you do when you haven't antagonized protesters and they still advance towards Congress or the White House?
take your glasses off
You have probably hit upon the core of the disagreement: when I buy a book, I want to keep it and I will refer to it in the future. Books that aren't keepers, I will borrow from the library. I don't read much fiction but the stuff that I like (e.g. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), I want to be able to access easily without being subject to encumbrances.
While I agree, is this really a new thing? I had a dev kit for oculus rift and sometime after Facebook acquired when they stopped DX 9 support I couldn't use the device after update and drivers where reaching out to Facebook endpoints. I have that domain block and the device stopped working if it could not talk to fb. I think it was slightly more than that but I gave up on it and uninstalled it since I trust fb not at all. Felt bad throwing out that money but without controller it wasn't that useful.
Yep, we were getting an insane amount of AZ chatter with Apache Pulsar because of all the components:

Request(us-west-1a) -> Pulsar Proxy(us-west-1b) -> Broker(us-west-1c) -> Bookie (us-west-1a)

Though for anyone using Pulsar on EKS who need multi-az for disaster recovery for the time being could deploy in a single AZ and then use the geo-replication feature in Pulsar to copy over to another AZ.
Median US income for a software developer or engineer is around $105k. Median income for employed people in the US is less than $34k. Around 18 million Americans are unemployed.
I build an app for sharing and downloading faces for Apple Watch
.... Which is why most democracies have multiple districts per city.

It won't look like Republicans gerrymandered it to their advantage, because they won't have the advantage.
Just imagine living in the neighborhood and watching your child's skin start turning red in the living room.

Using war crime weapons on US soil (tear gas is one) is something political leaders have no problem with.
Yep. I do claim it.

Clinton did not want to get dragged into a potential quagmire in the former Yugoslavia.

Sometimes the United States does things to systematically destroy opposition to its control of most of the world's economy.

Kosovo wasn't one of those times.

I poked through Zoltan's stuff, but I don't see anything that makes any attempt to look at internal decision-making by the Clinton Administration during the period.

This Brookings article, however specifically addresses internal decision-making by the Clinton Administration during the period:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/decision-to-intervene-how...

If you CTRL-F to "Why was the summer of 1995 any different?" There's a paragraph that explicitly addresses the key elements to Clinton's decision to pursue an interventionist policy in the former Yugoslavia.

If you are concerned that the Brookings Institution may be a biased source of information, I welcome you to review it's rating on Media Bias/Fact Check:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/brookings-institute/
Why would you pick Vive over a WMR headset such as the Reverb G2? I can see the Index being a better pick but even the Vive Pro is quite dated now.

Do you have any experience with the Pico? It'd be great to have a non-creepy (and hopefully a bit more open) alternative to the Quest.
That is confusing, but it’s before and after “benefits and taxes”. So I assume back then some families didn’t qualify for benefits (but were above the poverty line), but after accounting for taxes, they slipped below the poverty line.
Doctors Still Aren't Sure Why Covid-19 Is Causing Hearing Loss
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/kanye/hot.json?count=20. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).
Not particularly useful for movies but an interesting fact is that you get this same effect with any pair of headphones while playing VR games since all the stuff for head tracking exists already.
I don't have time at the moment to read through 44 pages of dense economics, but can you explain why some people think "consumption" is the right choice?

It sounds to me like "consumption" is approximately the same as "spending", which goes up whenever prices go up. Conflating consumption with wealth seems like a big mistake, if we are to truly evaluate the impact that materialism has on our long-term well being.
Ah, correct. I admit I glossed over the initial point.
It's comments like this that make me wonder if teaching multiple generations of people of a certain social class that 'violence is never the answer' was a mistake...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306359385656946688.html
It’s hilarious that I advocate against the government dictating exactly how a business can set prices and when, and you immediately jump to the foundations of private property. I’m not advocating for dissolution of the state - I’m saying we don’t need government agents meddling in all aspects of private business. But it is very sad that statists continue to advocate for ever harsher and more extreme intervention and ludicrous policies.
I'm not sure I'd say the US has consciously made that tradeoff, though maybe you aren't claiming that. If anything it's likely a side-effect, imo.

The median at any snapshot in time is materially better off, but also much more stressed out than people in other wealthy countries about whether they might end up in a very bad economic situation, due to how there is barely any bottom. Subjectively, middle-income Americans don't feel well off and don't feel secure in even what they have. For example, numbers vary based on the specific survey, but about 60-70% of Americans consistently feel high levels of stress about money. I'm not sure that's a course that would've been taken by a 50th-percentile person trying to optimize their own well-being?

One reason Scandinavian countries tend to come near the top of those "happiest countries in the world" surveys (though I don't like the term "happy" for it) isn't from any particular joyfulness, but because the typical household subjectively has very low levels of economic fear or stress. Some of the survey questions that go into that score include things like, do you feel economically secure, do you worry about losing your housing, etc. A huge percentage of even middle-class Americans spend a lot of their time worrying about that (including my family), while the majority of middle-income people from say Denmark don't consider it a big risk to worry about.
Well yeah, that's exactly my point. Quantum computers are digital, which is not what the above comment claimed, except for quantum annealers which are closer to analog computers.

What I'm saying is that even quantum annealers aren't really faster at any practical problem than a comparable supercalculator as of yet.
Generally everyone in the US views the US negatively right now.

maybe some mumbo jumbo stat that has nothing to do with the real world says things are better. Or maybe they frankly are not better.
I'm not sure what this is responding to in my comment.
This is interesting, though I'm ready to move past the limitations of emulating real world single-screen setups. I want a virtual window manager where I can move and organize windows just like the desktop, but in 3D around me.
Consumption is a proxy for access to resources, and is downstream of all transfers, which is why the World Bank uses it as the preferred metric for wellbeing.

The second website just summarizes the first paper, which is primary source. For your sake, I recommend attacking the substance of the argument rather than the entity making the argument.
I make use of big text mode on my linux laptop because 1080p on a 13" laptop makes everything tiny and fractional scailing is still a beta thing right now.
Freedom comes with responsibility.
Why is it at such variance with the BEA data? That is my question.
Excellent Twitter thread, I'm glad I went down that rabbit hole. I wish it was in blog format though, it's kind of jarring working through little blurbs.
What got my inspired here is, if a simple delay strategy can make attack harder, why not add this as a common feature in SSH?

It can be called "Initial Connection Delay": Once a new TCP connection is established, wait for an uncertain number of n seconds before read and respond to the handshake request.
Hey, I agree that I did but I'm not even promoting my project here or anything. What exactly are you trying to convey through your comment?
I’ll happily burn them in China for a slight fee of say 3MM?
Did I miss a paragraph or does that not at all explain WTF either Athens or Rome are?
The overreliance on NodeJS in "modern" Enterprise(TM) JS development is pretty weird in general, even for folks who have an affinity for having all their tools written in JS. A bunch of the NodeJS tooling could just target the browser's native JS runtime instead, which is already installed. E.g. to build the project, you clone it, double click the project's Build.app.htm file, and then drag and drop the project source tree there. I've actually already prototyped this sort of thing. This is how I plan on doing anything when working in JS going forward, whenever possible. That it's incompatible with the vast majority of the NodeJS/NPM ecosystem is a bonus.
Is this sort of process similar to what occurred in Europe during the decline of the Roman Empire when aqueducts and similar public infrastructure fell into disrepair? Did the people who witnessed that occurring notice the intergenerational trend, or did they think everything was business as normal? Is there any hope for reversing this decline in infrastructure if everybody close to the matter considers it normal?
The first time I used that I went to hit the accept call icon and accidentally swiped up on it rejecting the call.
Beat Saber also started using sprites for the blocks instead of geometry at roughly the time they released the Quest port. It's really immersion breaking for me, I couldn't play the game for ages and even now I have to actively try to avoid thinking about it. I know it's a small thing but ugh.

(You can prove this by putting a song on lower speed and no fail, and turning your head to watch the blocks as they go past. They look like they're rotating to face you.)
I'm fairly disappointed with Obsidian so far. While the basic functionality of linking/backlinking works fine, there are too many restrictions in how it works or how I can interact with it to make it anything more than a toy to experiment with. I disagree with your statement that it's "complete", since I consider it quite barebones. It doesn't help that there still isn't an API for me to build the features I need and they're unwilling to open source it.
Twitch Testing AV1
I would hazard a guess that this is more to do with the soundness of C# relative to TypeScript, which had to make many sacrifices to stay compatible with decade old JavaScript conventions.
I made a throwaway Facebook account for my Quest 1. Took me all of two minutes.

EDIT: Having read more comments below, I'm concerned that Facebook may eventually flag my throwaway account as "inauthentic" and revoke my access to all purchased Oculus software. The day that happens is the day I drop Facebook VR forever. No way am I linking my real-life identity to a platform full of angry gamers, some of whom may try to doxx and SWAT an opponent after a bad in-game experience.
For your sake, I recommend attempting to convince people with more than a 44 page economics pdf and oil propaganda (that article literally has green energy as the number 1 reason for the consumption disparity). Thanks
Policing doesn't need to imply jail, it can mean any policy enforcement, such as: the enforcement of regulations or an agreement.

DRM is without a question a policing method, one that's preemptive and overreaching by its definition.
Maybe their native language is written right-to-left?
Well, it does require electrodes to be implanted in the brain...
Just make a throwaway Facebook account, then. That's what I did for my Quest and it works fine.
Only a $4 million fine, though right? How much do you think a maintenance program would cost?
Agreed. I wish that the stigma would go away, but not because of mass financial instability. I wish it was just more of a culturally acceptable thing to do - it'd be easier to start a life at ~25 or so after a few years of working and creating somewhat of a nestegg.
That's awesome. The ergonomics seem to require a 2 handed phone hold. With 1 hand, holding the phone and trying to tap on the back in quick succession is too difficult for me.
You overvalue your singular vote.

Trump won in 2016 because a large portion of america was angry and not doing well, largely, the rust belt. Maybe you should go to them and tell them how well off they've been.
Google does that because they aren't able to make sure that every android device gets an update. Since Apple can make sure of this there is no reason to have a second way to update their apps. App store updates won't magically make the mail app devs work faster or produce more.
Myst Is Coming to Oculus
It's mine. It's an old Chrome extension shoved into a Lambda@Edge function that dynamically transforms the actual status page to cut out a lot of the "sea of green bubbles." I should look into updating it; it used to automatically upgrade the severity one level as well but AWS changed something.

https://gaslighting.me is the non-editorialized version.
I'm trying to think of internet brands that have successfully reinvented themselves, like analogous to an alternate universe where Myspace relaunches and becomes a thing. Maybe blogspot is a going concern, but it seems like the Altavista of internet publishing to me. Winner may take all in network effect companies, but does it mean you also only get one shot, or is there a "retro" effect online too?

To adapt another adage, users don't leave products, they leave communities. The idea of starting a new blog on blogspot doesn't really register for me anymore. Or maybe I'm out of touch?
It's Facebook version of doublespeak.
The Reverb G2 has additional tracking cameras on the side which should significantly expand the tracking envelope. I still want an external camera option though.
Adding some hard numbers to your point that $150k is an objectively huge income outside of the small bubble of highly-paid and overpaid software professionals. A lot of my friends and family make a lot less than I do, and work under worse conditions. If I complained about making less than someone at Google they would do worse than “microagress” me. That perspective and grounding in the real world sure helps me not feel bad that some people make more than I do.
The 150lb thing was pretty clearly because he thought his weight would be a disadvantage. Like saying he wouldn't play basketball because he was 5'4" and had a bad knee, the weight and the danger weren't related to each other, they were different factors in the final decision not to play.
The Portland riots myth is right wing propaganda. I suggest you diversify your news intake.
I’m not a smart guy, but I’m pretty sure microwaves don’t work like that through walls.
As a small business owner, I envy Panic, in a good way. They do great work, and charge good money for it, and people don't mind paying because if you know Panic, you know their product is worth the cost. That's priceless. I wish they did more, TBH. I'd pay just to enjoy their work.
Working more might be a person going from a part-time 30hr per week job to a full time 40hr per week job.

That’s a good thing, no?
You obviously know what "Athens" and "Roam" are. Care to explain it to us Plebs?
I have been using the beta for a while and had a bunch of issues but mostly minor and they seem to have all been fixed a week ago
Spam site check the links.
It’s great, but you need a phone that’s popular with its developers.
I thought Google had completely abandoned Blogger. Is there a reason they are investing in it again?
This is good. Rising incomes are a good thing.

My only problem is that it comes along with rising inequality. We needed to have more billionaires and multimillionaires (and thus raise asset values and debt much higher) for the wage increases to happen. Which basically means that the wage increases don't lead to a better quality of life.

More incoming money, more outgoing money.
I generally agree. I'm using kustomize right now, but I'm also using helm charts via a kustomize plugin called chartInflator. It allows us to re-use existing upstream boilerplate while still using kustomize. Though I've not been entirely happy with kustomize either, and I'm thinking I might begin to investigate jsonnet for some things.
Rand study uncovers income shift to the top 1% – $2.5t “reverse distributed”
Seems like the example shows off what it's supposed to be:

https://athensresearch.github.io/athens/#/page/0

The caveat that "Athens doesn't persist any data yet" is, uh, significant though.
No government buildings in DC were damaged. Small groups, in some cases as small as three people, destroying private property in the first few nights were a major problem because they were moving across the city and MPD couldn’t be everywhere at once.

You are correct, there’s no such thing as a safe way to use indiscriminate force on a crowd. But you’re also mischaracterizing the situation on the ground here.
Roam is https://roamresearch.com/
The SE 2020 is using the A13 chip which is about double the performance of the best snapdragon soc available right now. There doesn't exist an android phone with specs comparable to the SE.
https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1306375138707865600

"on June 16 of this year, PG&E pled guilty to charges of unlawfully causing a fire and 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter. their penalty? a $4 million fine."

They also settled for damages from several fires (including the Camp Fire) for $25.5 billion, of which 13.5 billion was earmarked for victims.
Roam is a trendy kinda wiki/note taking tool with backlinks. https://roamresearch.com/

We see a clone every other day. I'm glad in part since Roam is too expensive.
There is no rational, evidenced argument that the last four years has been on par with the Obama administration in terms of the corruption of political appointees, or the degradation of our institutions. The what-about-ism you put forth is a false equivalency in magnitude and kind.

We are in truly dangerous times, and I say this as a libertarian-leaning, conservative-friendly individual: Trump is an existential threat to our Republic.
This reminds me of the neuro-linguistic virus in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. 'Snow Crash' in the novel refers to a version of the virus encoded in a bitmap image which can cause hackers (who are used to processing information in binary form) to suffer brain damage.
You can finally set a default browser but still can't install an alternative browser. We will get there eventually
The Stages of a Side Project
> Perhaps putting all the "warriors" into special units that are only deployed in certain circumstances could allow for the beat cops to have different mentality:

"Man, I've so gotta get out of this shitty beta cuck beat cop crap, I need to prove my alpha stud warriorness to them to get into the kind of job I deserve! I know, I'll switch off my body cam and beat down the next black guy I see, then plant some drugs and charge him for resisting arrest and assault of a police officer as well. A few of those a week will get me noticed for promotion!"

:sigh:
Lost me at mini-map...
How to integrate Account kit in Quick App
this is unhelpful. whats the vision, or visions?
The Arctic is shifting to a new climate because of global warming
I don't think that they are - they've added numerous features to their hardware that software devs can interact with.

Honestly we just expect everything of everyone else and nothing of ourselves anymore. So they had some wonky version releases, like none of us on here have ever had issues like that before.