skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For general scripting where bash is a poor fit PHP and Ruby remain pretty solid to this day and I like them for that.

For web development though, not really. Elixir is much better there and I am saying this as a guy who had 8 years with Java and 6.5 years with Ruby on Rails (and consulted and helped 10+ PHP and JS projects in the meantime).
> There is no better indication of a bubble then people telling you that you're the crazy one for questioning it. I remember people telling me I was crazy for not buying a house in 2007, and crazy for not trading tech stocks in 1999.

I'm not sure that's a good indicator with so many counter examples: the internet, large touch screen phones, Cloud in the earlier days, etc.

We truly have no idea what the future if Cryptocurrencies are.
> KYC goes through Stripe's processes.

I take it this means that Stripe will still be acquiescing to activist pressure and taking actions to deplatform clients? Or is this opaque KYC process limited to the minimum required by law? Stripe's history of banning conservative clients in other offerings seems unacceptable for a platform trying to dig in deeper into core layers of the financial ecosystem.
Pretty much every I/O port Apple has ever used they dropped before the rest of the industry. PS/2, parallel, serial, USB-A...

Of course optical drives; that was a big step.

Apple is ruthless at pruning old tech.
This chart shows deaths due to COVID:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

It peaked in April at 17,000 in one week.

There's a column for percentage of expected deaths too.

I imagine the total deaths over the next 2-3 years will be below average based on the deaths experienced this year in older people and/or those with co-morbidity.
I neither can understand why it is considered as investment but I guess scarcity and how it can be exchanged anonymously and cheaply for large sums makes it lucrative. Especially if you want to avoid governments for some reason.
Many NYC banks can pay around 150-200k for a generic senior level engineer. Goldman and JPM are probably on the higher end of that spectrum.

Hedge funds can go higher.

Can't comment specifically about your experience at Amazon, but FAANG and top tier tech companies (maybe some mid tier as well) will probably pay better though, and give you better work environment. Financial institutions aren't exactly wonderful places to work for SWE.
Tough ask for an average warehouse employee to practice enough opsec to hide the talks from Amazon.
^ this is the developer of rga, in case it's not clear
Wonderful article! Thanks!
Illegal Groups handling cocaine production and smuggling ("Narco-Guerrilla" and "Narco-Paramilitares") are de-facto creating a network of corruption and outright soldier recruitment, which has been the main factor of destabilization for Colombia in the last 20 years. This is especially true for rural areas. A Government sponsored Cooperative that handles cultivation of Coca would make earnings of Coca farmers legitimate, de facto improving their life conditions and the ones of their families. These resources would help bringing basic education to rural areas, while reducing the amount of conflict sponsored by armed illegals.
Exactly my point. They add certain value to the economy and have fundamentals. From my understanding, I don't even consider Gold (a limited resource) a long-term investment.
TB3's display output is just displayport. Identical to displayport over USB-C.

You're only giving up the data part of TB3.
There's an old saying that comes to mind "in theory both theory and practice are the same, in practice they are not." The fact of the matter is anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers both exist and both endanger the health of those around them. This issue pits individual rights against community needs and as such it often goes awry. There are those who will make small personal sacrifices for the communal good and there are those who won't. The problem is communities are comprised of both kinds of people. That's why this notion you've expressed doesn't work as well in practice as it seems it should in theory.
A great investment if the cost of fuel goes up, but a bad one of if it goes down. Processing power is getting cheaper and cheaper.
This source[0] shows the rate of mask wearing in public in the US far exceeds the average of Europe. I'm not sure it's "how American" insomuch as it's "how unfortunate this virus was allowed to spread so long before the world was told about it".

[0] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/health/articles-reports/2020/07/...
That's assuming the current $1B does nothing to disincentiveize production which can't be true.
If a virus can’t spread from people who are riding on a bike, then my proposed solution is tiny circus bikes for everybody!
It would be interesting if someone had a meaningful measure with which to compare corporate greed of today to the greed of feudalism, the greed of colonial empires, and the like.
Don't force your workers to work in dangerous conditions with low pay and no voice in their work place, and maybe they wouldn't want to form a union.
Am I the only one who thought of the video game Red Dead Redemption 2?
The US has shown itself willing to topple foreign governments (including in latin America) before. But perhaps they've learnt their lesson by now. It seems like the end of the War on Drugs is coming, even in the US.
the company gets value often many times the employee's compensation, so it's a value exchange. it's entirely valid to negotiate the terms of that exchange. what's not valid is tolerating, even encouraging, the highly asymmetric negotiating positions between corporation and individual.
I'm surprised the Apple 2e's is so high, given the seemingly simplistic nature of the machine. I'm also surprised the TI-99/4A's isn't higher, given how complex it is - with its BASIC interpreter implemented on top of a virtual machine.
If they did do it, why would there not be at least one blog somewhere, of someone noticing that some domain doesn't resolve against 8.8.8.8, but does resolve against some other DNS provider?

Of course, this question would be silly under a dictatorship; the answer would just be "records have been suppressed." But we don't live in a dictatorship. Anyone in the US can use any DNS provider they like, even ones from outside the US. And anyone outside the US can use our DNS providers. So why would there be no evidence?

Mind you, I'm not necessarily arguing that Google wouldn't do this, if they were demanded to do so via a National Security Letter. I'm just arguing that you shouldn't conflate "no evidence that they're not willing to" with "already have in the past."
Ummm, latest daily UK deaths "with Covid" is 414, not 5000.

Ref: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Okay that is not particularly clear to me from the article and it's doing a disservice to the overall discussion then, imo. They should at least be linking to the original articles then to give context on that fact.
> There are... quite a number of reasons you should give pause to the idea of running AWS hosted elastic.

Care to share some of these reasons?
"The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism"... just wow.
Is it crazy to consider that crypto companies might simply provide better tools than a lot of banks, therefore driving worldwide adoption?
There are a ton of narratives that lump regions together, impute a bunch of political and/or cultural factors, etc. and I suspect that, at the end of the day, we'll look back and a neutral examination will have trouble consistently mapping outcomes to controllable (or at least explainable) factors. What did Belgium do to piss off the COVID-19 gods?
> If you actually turn off location services in the OS none of this tracking occurs.

Location services doesn't disable bluetooth. If you're in a dense area, your local stores may have bluetooth beacons which will report location hits against your bluetooth ID, which may be tied to you through applications you install.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluet...
Be careful. "Vitamin" D is actually a hormone that is fat-soluble which means it can build up too much in your body and cause a toxic effect and I know one person who that happened to.

The way to know you're ok at your current dosage is to take a blood test, ideally at least twice a year (summer and winter) so you can make sure you're not overdosing.

I haven't had a blood test in many years, so currently I am only on 3000 IU. It's a big difference, in one week I have 21,000 IU and you have 70,000 IU, I am only taking 30% of the dose you are.

Get a blood test!
Any cryptocurrency can be used to move money quickly. So if you buy a cryptocurrency, you are automatically "investing" in that "business". You don't need Transferwise.

Bitcoin is the canonical example. The value investment argument for Bitcoin is that you think Bitcoin is (or will become) a good way to move money. You're buying a scarce piece of that utility.

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Some cryptocurrencies additionally have other utilities. Example, ethereum can be used to write very slow, shitty software that runs on the blockchain. So far nobody has come up with a super amazing use case for this, but theoretically, if somebody did this would dramatically increase the demand for ethereum tokens - (b) above.

A better example would be something like https://handshake.org/ - a cryptocurrency that is trying to power a decentralized replacement for dns. Remains to be seen whether this can be done and will have adoption. These systems have all the problems of traditional startups, plus all the problems of low level protocol development, plus standardization problems, plus novel math.

However, I hope it's easy to see the value investment argument for something like handshake: dns is valuable, dns has problems, handshake is trying to solve those problems, by buying hns tokens I'm buying a part of this network, and if they succeed demand for those tokens goes up.

Hope this helps.
Why does the US support holding funds for up to 2 years, while everywhere else (like Brazil) only 90 days?
We're miles head and already banning straws.
Billing (invoices, specifically) has an invite feature to mail in checks and has auto-reconciliation. Maybe it's possible to integrate that?
In the appendix they mention something interesting - that apples CPU performance advantage isn’t magic, but very careful planning and testing on the right things, namely the entire App Store’s contents. That’s a huge dataset of real world applications you can test your designs against.
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It's a bit of nit-picking but I would say AMD and Apple.

The M1 is a Apple chip not and ARM chip. Sure it uses ARM IPs including the ARM instruction set. But it doesn't really use the ARM provided IP-cores as far as I know. So the M1 is ARM in the sense that AMD chips are x86 ;=)

This seems to be a pointless differentiation but the M1 chips are inherently different from other ARM ISA using chips using ARM IP-cores. Probably the main difference is that they have special hardware support for x86 emulation allowing fast x86 emulation on a ARM ISA CPU which is normally not possible otherwise.
I think in some sense it's just basic human nature. Over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, humans seem to have been generally tuned to avoid specific, concrete, short-term threats to their own life/health individually, or perhaps extending very slightly just to their own family/group/tribe, but anything that's a threat more generally, more abstractly or longer-term tends to fall off the radar quickly, even if there's a high probability that those things might turn into an existential threat to the individual at some point in the future.

I'm also curious how (or if) we're going to learn to collectively solve some of these long-term problems before many of them really start to turn into those specific, concrete, short-term threats to us as individuals, at which point many of the "easier" solutions may no longer be effective anymore.
>They don't mention results for trans men, so I don't know if they're neglecting that group or what's going on there

Might just be an issue with recruiting enough statistically sufficient numbers of trans men for the study group.
Why do people keep making this argument that the numbers are so low and don’t warrant a response without addressing or considering that the world has taken MAJOR steps to curb the spread and impact of the virus. If we all lived our lives as normal, it would likely be way worse.

Not to mention that if we were to have lived our lives as normal and not cared, then deaths outcomes would rise even more in proportion to hospital admissions since the more overloaded a hospital gets, the harder it is to get proper care.

It’s really not rocket science. Epidemiologist and doctors are saying we should take significant measures to stop this, I think I trust them. I wouldn’t want a doctor telling me how to engineer a web service.
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I have a suspicion that with the way the US has been behaving that several countries are going tell the US to get fucked.
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I'm in Orange County too! All Irvine schools are closed. Stay safe.
Aggressively slandering and smearing racial groups on the basis of made-up anecdata seems the definition of flame-baiting to me.
No the top one with the code. It provides a clear hint on the password of the computer. And the code is really stupid (not even a birthday or anything ;) )
Or low supply. The RTX 3080 is impossible to find, but not because they have high sales. They just haven't made very many of them.
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How about we let those Amazon workers help themselves and form a union?
But the text isn't making it from your keyboard through the machine and to the monitor any faster. Seems like at 120hz you're just maybe going to catch it a frame earlier when it shows up.
Its funny they don't care at all about the Indian labor organization which control > 50% of tech jobs at Amazon and are funded by the Indian government and their lobbying organization NASSCOM. Probably because > 50% of tech managers there are Indian nationals. In fact they promote Indian labor union formation there, which Amazon calls Bof's. They are absolutely entranced, though, in attempts to extract one more penny from blue collar jobs such warehouse, trucking, and security guards which are predominately staffed by white, black, and latino Americans.

Amazon's tech labor costs have to be in the tens of billions per year. They are paying SDE's, SDM's $200k-$1MM and but are surveilling $15 people who are stealing candybars.
do you realize the us has 7 military bases in columbia?
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Corporations are people, legally.
People can care about multiple issues at the same time.

This discussion isn't explicitly about the working conditions of Amazon, it is about the highly unethical methods they use to crush dissent and workers organizing, namely the leaked documents that detail actions including the spying on workers suspected of organizing even outside of work by the Pinkertons.

This isn't the 19th century, this deeply upsetting and unconscionable behavior should not be tolerated in the 21st century.
I don't see how people think that it isn't dangerous. Ezra Klein wrote the following on Vox.

> A few years ago, it became popular on feminist Twitter to tweet about the awful effects of patriarchal culture and attach the line #KillAllMen. This became popular enough that a bunch of people I know and hang out with and even love began using it in casual conversation.

> And you know what? I didn’t like it. It made me feel defensive. It still makes me feel defensive. I’m a man, and I recoil hearing people I care about say all men should be killed.

> But I also knew that wasn’t what they were saying. They didn’t want me put to death. They didn’t want any men put to death. They didn’t hate me, and they didn’t hate men. “#KillAllMen”

Ezra admits that viscerally it didn't sit right and it took some understanding to come to the conclusion that what was being said wasn't what was actually meant.

This is the exact same argument people like Peter Thiel make, "take Trump seriously not literally".

The idea that people have to read through the lines of hyperbolic and aggressive speech and understand the intentions and history is absurd. It just seems obvious that incendiary and zero sum language is going to push people into more extreme (and authoritarian) politics.
> Also, use your turn signal, even if there are no other cars within 100 meters of you.

You might be slightly unhinged my dude.
Couldn't you use the rocking of the boat as a means to generate electricity? Seems maybe easier than wind, which I can only imagine as putting some type of turbine on the deck, except in calm seas where you would need to make sure you had enough battery capacity.
This is pedantically true, but the TOS are usually bundled with other agreements that purport to give the company permission to do things.
> We truly have no idea what the future of X is

What an excellent reason not to invest in X!
> Not only is that impossible to know, what if you infected some people who were immnuno-compromised.

Firstly, yes drunk driving is far more dangerous to the public per incident than a Covid infectious positive case. This is glaringly obvious.

Secondly, you don't need to be immuno-compromised to be killed by a car. I.e. that's a small section of the population.

Digressing: There are many things in society where the risk of injury exists where it probably isn't a good idea to punish the person causing injury.

One problem with drunk driving is that it is illegal. It's not just illegal to kill someone while driving drunk. So no injury is even required.

Yet, being near others in a grocery store with a cloth mask (that does practically nothing) isn't nearly as dangerous and shouldn't be treated as such.

So you're making a point about injury where the law starts way before that, risk of injury. But everything has risk. Playing baseball is risky of the off chance of the ball hitting someone in the head. Less risky, but could kill someone, say someone who was skull-compromised like an infant. Do you want to outlaw baseball games?

That's an obvious "way on the other side of the spectrum" example. Where do you draw the line?

And clearly, drunk driving (driving not even being a right) is MUCH more dangerous than possibly infecting someone with a virus that kills, to be honest, a minority of those infected.

There are other viruses for example that is also transmitted in the same way, kills somewhat less frequently though like the flu.

Do you propose (like drunk driving) that not wearing a mask in public period should be illegal? Because you never know if you're interacting with someone who is immuno-compromised.
Frankly, I think that the willingness on the part of some, like Microsoft, to cater to that degree of hidebound thinking is actively harmful to us as a society, especially in terms of technology.

The more we enable people who are unwilling to even try to learn that this particular option has moved from the Edit menu to the Format menu, or has removed the default toolbar icon (but you can add one), or has simply moved an inch to the left, the more we send the message that it's normal and expected that people shouldn't have to ever adapt and change and learn new things.
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> but if you can build up

And those at higher locations will be more costly because they'd be both desirable and scarce.

If your theory were true all homes would be priced on some square footage price constant. They're not.
You're getting downvoted but it's fair criticism. Unfortunately it's also probably out of Stripe's hands, given that it tends to be driven by partner limitations.
He is being downvoted by people who consider the choice of a specific vendor a religious issue and will vote down anyone who in their eyes disparages their vendor of choice. It is a sad fact that the existence of this phenomenon only leads to the reinforcement of the religious behaviour since their insistence on the infallibility of their vendor is questioned by those not part of their cult, whereupon they double down on the magnificence and superiority of their vendor's products over everything else, which leads to more reactions and the cycle continues.

The power/performance ratio of the M1 SoC does not seem to need religious adoration to be seen as a significant step in the establishment of ARM as a real competitor to the AMD64 hegemony. The wait is now for other vendors - Samsung, Qualcomm, etc - to launch similar "desktop-oriented" SoC's which can be used by both traditional "dekstop" vendors (HP, Dell, Lenovo and to a limited extent Samsung etc) as well as traditional mobile-oriented vendors like Xiaomi. Some of those vendors will eventually produce ARM-based platforms which support user-upgradeable memory, GPUs and storage - and possibly also user-upgradeable CPUs - like they do for AMD64-based systems. Once these systems become available ARM has a real chance to take over the market.
Even if you accepted it as a diversifier, all cryptos combined still have a relatively small market cap, so I don't really see the point in adding them to a stock/fixed-income portfolio. It's a bit like frontier markets: sure, they're possible to invest in, but expensive, small and won't make a big difference at market weights.
Thanks for explaining.

This makes me wonder if there is a problem in my gut. I was on a 50k IU / week dose because of low vitamin D. It made no impact.

Being out in the sun, however, made a huge impact - so I get much more sunlight now and I'm fine. I wonder if the vitamin D issue correlates with largely indoor office work now vs farming of our ancestors and largely being outside.
In this case, I think quoting the introduction to the The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx is more apt: Hegel says somewhere that great historic facts and personages recur twice. He forgot to add: "Once as tragedy, and again as farce."
I am not sure about this specific metric but based on my experience with government metrics you will be waiting until closer to April than January for those numbers.
Yeah, nutrition is listed as one of the causes for the flynn effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

The flynn effect has slowed down in the western world. This highly suggests not genetic changes but genetic potential being fulfilled thanks to environmental improvements.
Can't wait for this monopoly to get busted up
Do you think the legalization of cocaine would, if successful, have the positive effect of reducing corruption?

I was surprised to learn from wikipedia that Columbia has separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches which is usually designed to create checks and balances that undermine corruption. With that said there is still an inordinate amount of corruption (evidently).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Colombia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Colombia

P.S. It feels a little lame to be citing wikipedia, but I don't know much about Columbia other than what I know from their drug lore.
I'm trying to find the HN thread from a few months ago, where an HN-user's spouse (who is a physician focused on treating patients suffering Vitamin D toxicity) gave a stark warning that she has personally seen many (hundreds of) patients on ~5-10k IU/day intake hit toxicity because they did not measure their levels. Be careful! Definitely try to get a test for your levels, definitely consult a doctor if you can. If you can't, know that 5k+ can be too much for some people.

(For the record, I began taking 1-2k IU/day in March.)
Yeah? You think pedestrians should step right out around a line of parked cars into traffic on Flower St. in downtown Los Angeles?
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