skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As weird as it sounds, inefficiency can be a feature of regulation, especially for big companies because it creates a slow and expensive hurdle for smaller competitors.

Sometimes, even as a consumer, this is desired, for ex when new drugs are coming to market. Sometimes, as you point out, it’s stifling.

Government is also inefficient by design. Imagine the gov’t pivoting to different laws every week - it would be completely unsustainable and would drive people crazy.

To answer your question, “regulation engineering” probably doesn’t exist because it’s designed to be slow.
s/literally any economic change since 1971/literally any economic change/
Ask HN: Is it hard to host your own podcast?
If I understand correctly It's just RSS Feed correct? Then I feel I should be able to host one easily on my own website. Are there any gotchas that I'm missing. Like hosting an email server?

Email servers has problems like

- getting a good ranking ip

- filtering out spam

- managing security updates

etc
That's a complex question. It's typically a combination of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
Free money also pulls many of the brightest into finance, as big finance's proximity to Washington and the money spigots is lucrative. There is a proper place for finance, but right now it seems everything is finance.
The graph showing divergence between wages and productivity is almost solely due to different inflation indexes being used to measure the two:

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag...

The two inflation indexes produced mostly similar rates until 1971, when the index used to measure real wages began rising faster than the one used to measure productivity.
> That's just 100% incorrect

Is it? Does your knowledge about this come from personal experience? Did you start using your own email server then migrated to a hosted one?

I've been a part of companies (both couple of years old companies, and newly started companies) who used our own email server running on the same hardware as the application servers were running on, and never had issues with emails ending up in spam. We made sure we had all the SPF/DKIM and the rest setup correctly, and only had delivery issues when we issues with the server itself or the receiving email server.
A good rule of thumb for success is to have more paying customers than there are layers in your tech stack.

Another rule of thumb is to have a setup so basic that articles like this are no fun to read or write. The limiting factor in a one-bro setup is complexity, and this guy maxed out about one paragraph in to his description.
> These just scream that the people behind them have no clue what they're doing.

Or maybe they know exactly what they are doing, but what they are doing isn't what you think they are doing. I'm pretty sure nobody at Slack regrets using electron.
Twitch has also been successful at bypassing adblockers over the last few months
The S in IoT stands for security :-)
How to keep your Git history clean with interactive rebase
Neopets Was Run by Scientologists
Reading here about bricked MBPs. Could someone clarify for me. If one swaps out the SSD with the current OS and puts in a blank replacement and then do the update. If it fails will the MBP be bricked or can one just swap in the other SSD to get it operational with the older OS. Or can the update really brick it because hardware is flashed? If that's the case could that be re-flashed by someone with the right equipment and knowledge. Some people have upgraded to Big Sur on their 2011 and mid 2012 MBPs. What is the risk of bricking then?
From the article:

Exceptions
At times, nature defies the human desire for orderly taxonomy. For example, there are mammalian monotremes that lay eggs (e.g. echidnas), flowering plants that lack chlorophyll and cold-blooded naked mole rats.

The Psittacidae (parrots) appear to have some mammalian behaviours. They exhibit play, learning through modelling, interspecies bonding and kissing and certain species are highly regarded for their intelligence. Some humans reciprocally bond with them, carrying them on their shoulders. This is never done with other avian species.
It's not just about a lower supply of labor, really. It's not cleanly captured in terms of supply and demand. The reason a string quartet costs more now isn't because there are fewer people who can play instruments, it's because other things pay better.

In other words: if the average worker salary suddenly rose by 100% in every area except classical musicians (let's say there's some magical new productivity technology that increases productivity for every job except music, and further say that the workers capture that value) then the classical musician salary would also rise, because otherwise people would stop becoming musicians at the same rates. Nowhere in this thought experiment did the supply of labor change.
> And if you find that you need to scale beyond one or two instances (not everything is a CRUD webapp, after all) especially autoscaling, then...

Have you ever been working a solo project that needed autoscaling? If so what was it doing that was so resource intensive per $ earned that it was still a solo project?
Helicopter pilot finds 'strange' monolith in remote part of Utah
Energy allows you to trade one thing against another. For instance, we have a "white sand" shortage (for making chips). (Vastly) more energy would mean more kinds of sand would be perfectly fine for production.

So energy is special: it is the universal input to industrial processes. Unlimited energy would make almost anything (more) plentiful. We'd essentially have more of what people want, whatever that is. So yes, more and cheaper housing in dense cities, but it's probably easier to see that faster and better transport options would result. That limits everything, not just manufacturing.
I've only seen early bird prices for physical products or things like tickets. It makes sense to me where there's inherently a limited supply and over time the available number of items for sale falls and hence price gets higher.

In content I think it's just the opposite. At the start nobody has it and it makes sense that the price is higher. Then as early birds get it they may share it with others and so it gets more and more available.

At least that's my armchair economics thinking. I'm sure the pricing model works for the OP. I just found it interesting.
A much larger number of much smaller bubbles whose edges didn’t touch each other.

Now we have a few large bubbles who insist that the smaller bubbles become part of them or else...
My blog has next to zero professional value, aside from experimenting with web technologies that I don't use at work. As for the actual posts, it's only meant to enhance my writing skills. No one has read it and wanted to hire me because of it.
Governments only interest in banning facebook is protecting their own corruption.

Facebook is not nearly as bad as the narrative driven tabloids would have us believe.

Most people get along with it just fine, it's mostly just social media.

It can have a downside, but it's better than having communications restricted.
Isn’t the hash ( before the . Onion) is the public key ?

So technically we don’t need a cert for onion
> The massive increase of women joining the labor market in the US

This drives down the cost of labor. If, to make ends meet, you need two people working, they won't be able to easily move to pursue better employment unless both find employment at the same place at the same time, or that the new offer is significantly better than the previous one. As this would depress salaries everywhere, that's very unlikely.
Thanks, I edited my sloppy use of "core". I meant extremely popular/fundamental external libraries.
Collective action problem. You don’t have to sponsor to reap the benefits. You can pull it off for this or that cause celebre, but it’s not a workable model in general.
Another big mover came just after, 1973, the oil supply shock. This in turn lead to stagflation.

Another thing I didn't see in that data set was the relative growth / decline of union membership; i.e. how that affected wage growth, indirect effect of negotiating power. It would also be interesting to see whether that was a leading co-factor or a following co-factor.
Is the problem then that they have that information, and having that information is inherently bad for some reason regardless of the effects, or is it that with that information they're able to reliably capture more of the market surplus and cause more of your transactions to only be barely worth it for you?
Social welfare spending, as a percentage of GDP, has massively increased since 1972.

On the regulatoey side, major regulatory agencies, including the OSHA and EPA, were also created in the 1970s. Every broad-based measure of regatory burden shows increasing since 1971.

So if anything, post 1971 United States has demonstrated the failure of abandoning economic liberalism in favor of central economic planning.
Clarification for those unfamiliar with NPM:

The weekly downloads on NPM do not indicate individual manual project installs. They include every download including automatically through `npm install` from package.json, and often further automation via CI tools (which is where the vast majority of download numbers come from on all npm packages). These amplify the numbers significantly.

i.e While they are a proxy for popularity, it can only be used relatively.
The subtitle starts like this: "Even the worst-run startup can beat competitors if investors prop it up."

This is clearly written by someone that has little to no startup experience. As someone that has spent 15 years as a founder I can tell you that the opposite is true: I have seen startups racking in seemingly endless funding only to be beaten by much smaller / less well funded competitors that happened to have better strategy or execution. The examples are endless, more recently we heard about Quibi ($2B funding!) failing, Yik Yak, WeWork etc

There are markets that are capital intensive, and others that are really commodity spaces where winner takes all (Uber comes to mind) but for the most part, the smartest VCs in the industry will tell you that you should worry about strategy and execution, not raising a ton of cash which creates a bunch of problems on its own.
The+Heart+of+God:+Signs+of+The+Coming+End+Times+-+Gospel+Of+GOD
> An unnecessary additional failure point seems counterproductive

One of the leading reasons for using USB attached storage on the Pi is to avoid SD card corruption issues.
Vaccination will be required to fly, says Qantas chief
Explain your customer support funnel.
There's an issue with the recommended "default" setup of Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, where it will set up a database for recording events. But these ends up being a ton of writes to the SD card over time. If anyone else is using Home Assistant on a Pi, I highly recommend moving your database files to an external USB HDD, or connecting it to a database over the network on another machine. That should make the SD card issue vanish.
Ask HN: Advice for Transitioning to a Product Owner
Hi,
My spouse is transitioning from the role of a technical manager to the role of product owner within the same company. He is moving to a recently acquired unfamiliar new product though.

He has observed a few product owners on the job. This is the first time he is assuming the actual responsibilities. Since I hang out here often, I am asking on his behalf.
What should the first steps be? What should he look out for? What kind of systems have been helpful to you to manage the load and the enormous amount of communication involved?

How do you track inputs from sales engineers, support, customer success teams?

What are the parameters you use for prioritization?
That depends heavily on how well it's being followed and how many other safeguards like closing or capacity limiting indoor dining/gatherings are put in place and enforced/followed.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Facebook told me these were ineffective!!! Not the hekcin facediaperinos.
>>> What is the alternative, from a game design perspective?

There are gradations that can be administered to allow the player to realize the gravity of situations presented in gameplay, not as ham-fisted as your example alludes. For example, I think that A Dark Room is a good example of looking at the consequences of your actions, and its storytelling is really good at calling out the player and taking those actions into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dark_Room
Just take the battery with you.
Yeah, liberalisation just made rich richer.
All that government debt went to entrapanuer not working mass.
If capital accumulation is too fast then he need to put in somewhere. If that somewhere is housing then normal working people can't compete.
I don't have the list right now, but I took the time to just search based on memory and came up with this:

The UDOO boards seemed to have the most promise to me, and topped the list. [1,2] UP Squared also looked pretty interesting, if a bit anemic. [3] LattePanda's have some nice engineering but you pay for it. [4] I hadn't heard of the Rock Pi X before but it seems like a neat possibility... so yeah, thats a quick version of it. I am pretty sure I had settled on the UDOO's but need to revisit my logic, especially after seeing the nice cooling and form factor stuff on the LattePandas. I worked with a few industrial fanless pc's in the past I was also thinking about but those are a bit out of scope of discussion I suppose.

1. https://shop.udoo.org/udoo-x86-ii-ultra.html

2. https://shop.udoo.org/udoo-bolt-v8.html

3. https://up-shop.org/up-squared-series.html

4. https://www.lattepanda.com/products
https://youtu.be/E-HeAnJcJvQ : check this out..it’s just ripping the field with a cultivator. I have never seen one of these Rome tractors before. Apparently it’s an Arkansas beloved..Mid west farming, it’s a planet of its own.
Building a Dashcam with the Raspberry Pi Zero W
IMHO this could be larger than most people would think. This made it affordable to export labor overseas, starting the power imbalance between employers and employees.

I'll bet if you look this is the start of die off of Unions. Now there is an alternative to employees who start demanding living wages and benefits, you can build your factory in another country where labor has few rights. The only unions you would expect to survive are ones where the labor can't be outsourced. Service unions. Transportation. Mining in cases where the material is too expensive to ship like coal.
Rich people have no reason to keep significant amounts of currency while poor people have fewer options. Workers must also actively negotiate for higher wages while the value of their wage is passively going down.
> However, it just made sense for me due to the simplified operations, and re-using most of the learnings from my full-time job. It has enabled me to move faster in shipping customer-facing features.

As someone who is mostly in the same boat as you, you have got a strong point in terms of favouring tricks you know best.

The amount of code I have had to throwaway made me not want to invest in things that require lots of resources to run and maintain (in other words, things I'd not be comfortable with managing all by myself).

I almost always default to managed and serverless products: This won't necessarily be a winning strategy for everyone to say the least as it brings its own complexity to the table. It is pragmatic; however (like you call out), to trade one set of complexities (one that I am comfortable with) for another.
Put me in the camp of those that feel that there is no need for any special compensation from Nintendo. Attribution and recognition is more than enough. Isn't it exactly the reason for releasing the software under this license?

People who release free software are generally people who enjoy programming. A programmer with a proven track record of releasing high quality free software should have no problem securing a high paying job. If this guy happened to be looking for one this public attribution from Nintendo is surely something that can help level up a CV.
What does moving to 5nm mean here? Starting to build stuff with 5 nm or releasing 5nm CPUs AND GPUs? Point is we don't know... and waiting for next gen is always an option -- what about next next gen?
Cost of labour = compensation + direct and indirect overhead. I suspect that there was a change in direct or indirect overheads. Medical insurance, pension or some other thing.

Another explanation is declining wage share.

Costs per unit of real gross value added of nonfinancial corporate business: Compensation of employees
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A460RD3Q052SBEA

Share of Labour Compensation in GDP at Current National Prices for United States
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG

First microprosessor appeared in 1971 (Intel 4004)
I'll check it out, thanks!

EDIT: After a quick look, I like what I see in general. The biggest suggestion that I would make and the part of SendWithUs that really appealed to me was the recipient focus of the interface.

Being able to look to a specific user, see what had been sent to them, delivery status, resend it if necessary, etc. That was a very appealing and useful way to deal with the email logs from my perspective.
As a young and healthy challenge trial volunteer, who is now watching the panic metastasize into an existential threat to free civilization, no they were not. Blocking these trials is the worst miscarriage of ethics that I have ever seen.
Surgery near end of life is common and costly
As noted in the prior thread, movie novelizations are almost always work-for-hire jobs, meaning that the authors are not entitled to royalties but get paid a fixed amount and may receive sales-based bonuses. (In a work-for-hire arrangement, the author is commissioned to write something, and the employer owns the copyright and thus also the royalties for licensing, republication, etc.)

While 70s/early 80s era Fox was known for its artist-friendly legal deals (see, e.g., letting Lucas keep Star Wars), it would have been extremely unusual for Lucasfilm to have hired ADF on anything but a WFH basis. And indeed, the copyright record for the novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye shows that the "Star Wars Corporation" owns the copyright, not ADF, and was an "employer for hire." (https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=4&ti=1,4&...) On that note, the copyright registration for Aliens (the novelization) also shows that it was a work-for-hire. https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=65&ti=51,... (Contrast to an original work, where the author is the copyright claimant: John Scalzi's Old Man's War https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&...)

In other words, ADF is not being denied royalties. He wasn't owed any in the first place, unless he somehow negotiated a non-standard WFH agreement that almost nobody in the industry gets. (ADF was a big name for sci-fi novelizations back in the day, so it's possible that he did have such an arrangement, but if that's the case he needs to show that he has that type of contract.)

EDIT: grammatical fixes and added links

EDIT 2: Note that the SFWA has unilaterally made claims about what they think Disney is trying to do (acquire assets without the corresponding liabilities). This claim would be correct if, as ADF claims, he owned the copyrights to the novelizations or his WFH agreement somehow obligated Fox/Lucasfilm to pay him royalties. But otherwise it's simply wrong, and Disney itself has never actually made statements to that effect. Moreover, such a claim would not comport with how M&A works in the U.S.
FWIW I have not had any SD corruption issues after 1) using name-branded cards and 2) ensuring that I feed each Pi w/5.2V. In the end I bought a commercial 5V power supply, tweaked it up 5% and wired directly to the 5V pins on the Pi.
> "If everyone did what I am about to do, would I like to live in the society that would result?"

I think about it differently. I look at things and think "is this system set up so that it is easier to do the right thing than the wrong thing?" I think it is easy to look at problems and point out individual "moral failings" as the cause, but data doesn't really support that in the big picture in most cases. There is a reason you don’t see trash on the ground at Disneyland. They put trash cans everywhere because they want it to be easier to throw your garbage away than litter. Driving safety has improved due to system changes, not individual actions. Regulations on safety devices, enforcement of road laws, research into road/signal/signage design to promote safety and discourage poor driving, etc. Climate change is far and away an industrial problem where producing greenhouse gases are almost a complete externality for corporations. It isn’t people taking long showers or using straws, it is corporate byproducts that they have no incentive to reduce because they have no profit motivation because those things do not cost them anything.
Agreed. Everything sounds like a great idea when the only thing challenging it is your own thoughts.
You arbitrarily restrict the definition of VC to only institutions in Silicon Valley and then further gatekeep with the word "respected" institutions, which are presumably those that a-priori meet your preferred definition by not investing in Theranos? No True Scotsman indeed.
And we could destroy the habitable world even more rapidly than we're doing. Sounds great.
College education is probably mostly explained as being a positional good being propped up by a bubble. On the other hand, I actually agree with you that inflation may have sneaked into specific domains. Eggs are cheap, but we've also gotten much, much better at making eggs cheaply. A static egg price actually implies inflation, if it costs less to produce an egg.
“Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements.”

From another Motherboard writer:

https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/13309270540832645...

“Amazon's Global Security Operations seems to surveil literally any environmental activism, labor organizing, or social movement in Europe. One notable instance: they hired Pinkertons to infilitrate a warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland and spy on workers and managers.”

——

As corporations grow in power, we have to worry about them surveilling, not just government surveillance — governments in democracies have oversight, privacy can be invaded by corporations with less oversight.

A bunch of interesting tidbits in the article.
I post rather sporadically, whenever I have something of use or interesting to add.

I was asked to speak at the local Python meetup because of that. I discovered more friends through that.
> It's just that the upwards potential is a lot bigger than downwards in corrupt places.

I suggest that the opportunity for downward is just as big as the opportunity for upward, if the Rohingya situation in Myanmar is anything to measure by.