skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You take your fiat and you invest it and nothing you say below the first paragraph matters.

If only.

The problematic part of a fiat system is not that is fiat, but that is in the hands of the government who knows not how to exercise constraint and inflates it at will to "pay" for things, more realistically, to promise to pay for things that if it had to actually pay for it will never be able to afford.

> The issue is that people don’t have money, and they don’t have wealth. This is strictly a social problem.

What do you think money is? Money is how societies choose to interact with each other; in a sense, money IS society, at the very least money is the first brick on which to build one. The government printing money and using it to pay for political favors (via military or natural resources contracts, monopoly markets, etc.) is at the core of the wealth gap.

> Replacing one inflationary currency with a worse distribution than a banana republic, with a different deflationary currency with a worse distribution than a banana republic changes nothing.

You don't understand what bitcoin is. Bitcoin's advantage is that the inflation rate is not controlled by the government, ie. they can't print money to buy stuff they can't afford, With bitcoin, governments can't print the wealth gap.
I don't want to try to argue in centimeter's place, since I'm not sure I agree with them, but the most charitable reading of their comment is not that they're trying to attack the status quo to distract from the energy usage of bitcoin.

They seem to be saying that traditional finance uses a lot of energy but we're mostly okay with
that because we find financial products and services useful.

Bitcoin also uses a lot of energy, but it's only a "waste" if you think it's providing no value. Bitcoin is one of the few ways to buy "hard money" and if you value that the energy is not being wasted, it's being spent on provisioning a valuable service.
Personally I think a major part of the secret sauce is Google's internal compute infrastructure. When I was an academic, 50% of my time went to building infra to do my science. At Google, petabytes of storage, millions of cores, algorithms, and brains were all easily tappable within a common software repo and cluster infrastructure. That immediately translates to higher scientific productivity.
Yes, it must be compiled to Wasm to work.
That's true and also is not what is being challenged by my comment.
> I can't think of a single thing government has done to "roadblock marriage".

Land use restrictions, housing regulations, and zoning laws substantially increase housing costs. Affordable family formation is the major driver of marriage rates. Housing costs are the primary component of affordable family formation.
SymPy is great! I use it at work in an in-house web application where the user designs a graph (using d3.js). The graph nodes are electric energy meters, and so there are certain flows thru them. A system of equations is generated and then solved using SymPy, so one can find out what the flow is in a certain node in terms of the flows in the others.
I think there is a bias, I don't know if it is FOR or AGAINST or evenly balanced between the two camps.

The scary thought is could the whole for or against argument be created or atleast promoted by Apple itself in order to be the topic of conversation? I seem to recall a successful add campaign by Apple that did just that a long time ago. "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC"
Will the person who takes his place be better or even worse?
I think you’re saying there are good cultures and bad cultures, which is a statement I find impossible to disagree with.
Right; traffic was one of the main reasons we lived so close 'in'. Over 11 years, we lived in three different apartments, always within 10 minutes bike ride to Caltrain, and every place I worked was within a 10 minute bike ride from Caltrain.

Bicycling around takes time, but I considered it worth while since it doubled as good, low impact cardio.

We also stayed primarily in Mountain View because of the schools.

But yeah, from 2009-2020, traffic went from somewhat manageable to batshit crazy.
Looked at buying one recently, much longer ship times that even the new Macbooks.
Which makes sense, but it was worded in a way to whip up attention and those cherished internet points, I think.
Going from 14% to 27% in 2 weeks is a pretty extreme trend, especially in a market that's typically very slow moving, considering desktop upgrades occur at a far slower cadence than, say, mobile phones.
Unrelated comment.

I've seen the M1 Mac Mini teardown, and this new model has retained the same footprint as its Intel predecessor despite it looking like much less space was needed. I really look forward to a much smaller mac mini version in the future.
Running them on PC is not the point :)
I have been taking care of my elderly mother, who would be vaguely defined as "not well" in the Southern sense of things, since my twenties. I did go into it with my eyes open, knowing the kinds of tradeoffs I was making. I could live alone, but this was a choice I made to help her.

However, I was unprepared in the extreme for the ambient hostility toward men who live with their mothers, no matter the reason. I do not attempt to date or anything near it (I have additional factors that would make dating ... unlikely ... already, and living with your mom is just gravy on top), nor do I "hit on" women, but there was a (to me) startling rate of women who, upon finding out my situation, make it abundantly clear that they would not date me, despite me not asking. I refer to this as "pre-jection."

I wonder if this sort of thing will continue, now that it is happening to a significantly larger segment of the population.
+ Tableau
The millennials also made the terrible decision to enter the workforce during the worst economic crisis in a generation. And then to continue working for stagnant wages while costs of housing and healthcare skyrocket.
Ooh, the salt.
I get both more and less done. More because the line between home and work is blurred and sometimes I find myself checking work email or responding to people on Teams at 8 pm. Less because the temptation to quickly check Facebook/HN/YouTube/News/etc. in between tasks is much higher now that there are zero physical coworkers around that might see my screen.
It can definitely be more than 1 now. New version should help, but also breaks.

Source, personal experience with my projects.
They signed up for this by using Slack in the first place. I don’t mean to be anti-corporation, just saying the wise move for keeping communities around for the long haul does not involve tying yourself to the life of a SV company.

I hate to beat the dead horse but IRC sounds great for such free communities. If it’s just about connecting people without the need for historical data or discovery, IRC is great and won’t die when [tech company] folds
Setup Your Own Tiny Incubator and Practice to Launch
This article touches on some of the tradeoffs with remote work, which aren't one-size-fits-all. In my (pre-COVID) remote team management experience, the bigger problem was that new remote workers didn't really understand what working style suited them best. What people thought they wanted and what actually made them happy were two often two different things.

For example, infinitely flexible work hours and asynchronous communication sounds like a dream come true to many people, especially introverted engineers. What could be better than doing whatever you want all day, then pulling some tickets out of the queue to work on in your spare time, at your leisure?

Unfortunately, reality is often quite different. Most engineering work doesn't operate like an assembly line with Jira tickets coming out of the Project Management conveyor belt and into the Engineering Department to be quietly transformed into features. This quickly becomes obvious after cumulative months of delays from ping ponging e-mails back and forth over the course of a week for something that could have been settled with a 1-hour video call. So now the work becomes a mix of flexible work hours punctuated by exhausting synchronous calls where everyone tries to compensate for working in different directions for the past few days.

Younger engineers often also struggle with time management. When we had infinitely flexible hours, it was common for younger engineers to trickle in work for the the first part of the week and then scramble to pull late nights into Thursday and Friday to make up for procrastinating all week. I jokingly called it the "college schedule" because we've all been there before. One of the unspoken benefits of fixed, core work hours is that it's more likely to help people avoid procrastination cycles. Obviously not a miracle cure, but it's a step above free-form schedules.

It can be hard to believe, but switching teams in this situation back to pre-determined core working hours can end up making everyone more happy. Few people will tell you that they want fixed working hours up front, but in my experience most people prefer it after trying it both ways. Teams can still be flexible for running errands, picking up kids from school, going to the gym, and so on. But having some core coordination hours will ease key communication issues.

The difficult part as a manager is that you're not going to be able to convince people that they'll actually be better off with 4-6 fixed, overlapping core hours for the team up front. It's one of those things you need to experience both ways before you truly understand it.
Rewritten ReactJS Project to VueJS
sorry my lack of understanding: So you think an image classifier trained on Create ML can be exported to another framework of not?
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> They would know Monkey Island used VGA and 256 colors

The original Monkey Island artwork was done in EGA.
Moving $10,000 USD to CAD on the blockchain is roughly $399 not $6.

This is so disingenuous it's not even funny.

There are so many countries that US residents can't send to without going through a middleman, which takes a cut. Bitcoin isn't for sending money to CAD, which of course you can do. It really shines to sending money to places that don't have nearly as much financial infrastructure.

A regular wire transfer can take up to 3 days and cost 5-10%.

A bitcoin transaction that takes 1 day is cost 1 satoshi per byte. A satoshi is 1/100,000,000 of a bitcoin. Checking a realtime dashboard (https://bitbo.io), a satoshi is worth $0.00019225.
Suspect this is developers snagging them since they're the cheaper option for getting their apps tested and all that. Also I hear MacMiniColo or whatever they're calling themselves these days ordered a ton of them.
So it's a really good start, but nobody is going to be throwing these structures into molecular docking simulations for drug discovery or etc just yet. But hopefully those details can be worked out soon enough.
Sure doesn't. My wife and I made the same amount of money, within 1% of each other, when we got married. We both changed out deduction from single to married. Tax bill came around and we owed 10k.

Our income at the time, combined, was ~160k.
Anyone who gets famous and stays famous is playing a part on some level. It's definitely all a game, it's not obvious from a certain perspective, but I think just a few moments behind the scenes and then it does become clear. Almost everything is contrived beyond the 'first thing'. The 'raw' original, Mike Tyson was a stand out character, but how long will a) the public remain interested and b) can one really be biting of ears and going to prison to keep up public perceptions? Easier to get a tattoo, buy some tigers and play crazy in movies.
Can’t wait to go through this same exact routine in a few years lol
Indeed. I once posed a question at chess.com, which attracted many comments answering the opposite of my hunch, but after lots of analysis of games I'm pretty sure I'm right:

Looking at the computer-calculated advantage score during a game (e.g. "white is at +1.0"), is it possible to make a move that increases your advantage?

My belief is that, no, as a human it is not possible (at least, virtually impossible) to make a move that increases your calculated advantage. Your advantage is the score calculated with the assumption you make no further mistakes. The best we can do as humans is to keep that score, or (more frequently) lower it.

The game is then won by whoever lowers their advantage the least over the course of the game.

What cemented this for me was watching AlphaZero play against Stockfish. AlphaZero was playing so far outside the realm of what Stockfish could do that it was the only game I ever saw where a player increased their score. Basically Stockfish would say "you made a bad move, you made a bad move, you made a ... wait a second, that's a great move! How did I not see what you were doing!?"
That’s my experience with notifications as well, but I also still miss having a separate LED to show pending notifications when the screen is off.
Exactly. SF is one of the safest places to live in the US right now (as it relates to COVID)
cto here - I signed up to work on Grist because I like the UI, like it as a spreadsheet format, and think it has potential for decent version control - something lacking in data projects, and that I've been interested in for way too long - here I am ranting in 2013 https://okfnlabs.org/blog/2013/08/08/diffing-and-patching-da...
It'll be a Biden nominee, so politically liberal concepts like net neutrality will be pushed by the new FCC chairman.

This sort of resignation is basically standard faire for the executive branch transfer of power.
Is failed startup experience valuable?
I have a side project I am really passionate about. I want to quit my current job and work on it full time. My technical/engineering/code skills are mostly focused on data science/analytics and to complete this project I will need to learn a lot about web development and product management. There is a high probability I will fail but I think I am at a good time in my career for that.

I have savings that I can survive on for a year. My thinking is after 6-8 months I will have an MVP or at least a prototype. Then I can reassess and if it doesn't look like I will be able to create a viable business or raise money to scale I will have to put it on pause and look for a job.

A part of me feels that even if I fail, future employers will look at my attempt as experience. At the same time I know not all failures are created equal, it could easily look like a way to dress up unemployment.

For those who failed at startups and had to get a job after, What was your experience reentering the job market?

Could you find roles you wouldn't have otherwise been able to get without the experience you gained going out on your own? I am not keen on going back to data science/analytics I hope that I'll be able to learn skills for web development and product management along the way.

How do you fail and still have something to show for it?

Thanks!
Insulting me and assuming I didn't read my links doesn't make your argument stronger. It makes you sound insecure about your argument, which you should be, because you have missed basic facts about the study.

> At age 15 indeed the association diminishes to almost zero; the original experiment never claimed otherwise

The original experiment (and you, based on what you implied about people who fail to take Covid precautions) absolutely did claim an association at age 15 and beyond. That was the whole reason it became famous.

> nonetheless it is pretty stupid to believe that a marshmallow is a sufficient reward for 15 years old person

I can't tell if you're trolling or not, but I'll engage with you as though you're being sincere.

The data for 15 year olds is academic achievement, not a repeat of a marshmallow test.

From the study:

> "Academic achievement was measured using the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery Revised (WJ-R) test (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001), a commonly used measure of cognitive ability and achievement (e.g., Watts, Duncan, Siegler, & Davis-Kean, 2014). For math achievement at Grade 1 and age 15, we used the Applied Problems subtest, which measured chil-dren’s mathematical problem solving."
Most 18-22 years waste 4 years in university not acquiring any skills that would help them in a competitive job market.

As a result, they move back in with mom and dad at age 22, now thousands of dollars in debt.
Article is somewhat click bait, it refers to "market share" which I would usually assume to be be the installed base. Instead the Japanese source explicitly says (if I can trust google translate) that this figure refers to sales only. Hard to say the overtook the market, they took the crown for sales in a single month so far.
> Overall, it's a testament to engineering, that a person can walk away alive from a crash like this.

Not just to engineering, but also the training and performance of all the track stewards - first person to put a fire extinguisher on the wreck was 7 (!) seconds after the crash. That's unbelievably fast.

Grosjean survived due to every person and every piece of technology working exactly as they should.
No San Francisco is underfunded and they've been added to by Voter initiatives. They also suffer from issues where they've had to increase pension obligations as the Cost of Living has increased at a greater rate than elsewhere.

A few years old...
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/07/11/san...

That's the pensions. SF public salaries are also likely 50 to 100% higher than in Chicago.
This sound like a solid milestone actually. 27% of market share (since launching). Apple is now the desktop sales leader in that particular market. Went from 15% to 27% share of sales(sold quantities in a given time). Which means Apple is selling a lot of M1 Mac Minis in Japan.

> 27 some percent is still less than 100 percent

Of course 100% of the desktop sales are not going to be Apple's. 27% of the desktop sales in a market like Japan sounds very impressive to me.
Hi, can you please explain the Wasm part? Is there any particular reason to use Wasm? I don't know wasm but does it use a specific threading/concurrency mechanism in it?
Sorry, I didn't think my claim that a particular style of French fry is best required a disclaimer that it was a statement of opinion and not objective fact :-)

I do think that entirely too few people in the US have ever tried anything other than fries of smaller cross section and that properly cooked Belgian style fries would be a revelation for a great number of people over here.

Besides, the whole premise of TFA is based on snobbery and a bit of nostalgia. They're recreating the old McDonalds fries, not the new because of the perceived superiority of the old ones, after all.

I only argue that if you're going to be a snob, you should at least be a well-informed snob, though perhaps my intended humor came across poorly over the internet.

Imagine reading an article written by somebody who has never tried deep dish pizza (or any other kind) writing about their quest to replicate an old Dominos crust recipe.
> this represents an economy but the denizens of that economy would be impoverished and miserable, constantly waiting for some outsider to come solve their problems

The outsider in this case is the government bailing out industries like when these digital nomads(businesses) failed, they'd go back to their parents (government). When their parents(gov) run out of money, they'd put it on the credit card (print more money by the Fed) and the cycle continues...

It's funny how this sounds exactly like how our economy works LOL
Pent up demand from stagnation on the desktop space for the last 5+ years?
Not to take away from the argument that we should vaccinate everyone (we should, at least adults. not sure if this vaccine will be approved for kids, which usually requires more stringent approvals), but your argument isn't a good one.

Covid has killed 42 people from age 5-14 in the US according to the CDC, for example. That alone is really not something we should be making huge policy decisions around. It's sad, of course, but it's extremely isolated. All it does is distract us from making good policy decisions.

If I was making policy decisions I'd order vaccine rollout as follows:

Essential workers => 80+ years old => 70+ => 60+ => etc. as we produce and distribute the vaccines.

At some point we might look at the data and say "that's good enough, we can resume normal activities while we work to vaccinate the rest of the population".
It's an ambiguously worded sentence.

What they mean is: if you take the entire Japanese desktop computer market (not some subset of it, like "low-power desktops", the "entire" desktop market), and you look at which individual computer manufacturer has the highest market share, Apple has just overtaken Lenovo Japan.

How I might've worded it: Apple now has a marketshare plurality in the Japanese desktop computer market after the introduction of their M1 Mac Mini.
> It sounds to me what you really want is for someone to alleviate your discomfort by shoveling off the riff-raff so that you can enjoy your bike ride, rather than having to address the systemic issues, which might impact your net worth.

I would take issue with this assumption as I had moved from a pretty socialist country to SF, where I paid much higher taxes and didn't complain. Nay, I celebrated the taxes I paid because I saw where they went all around me. Fantastic infrastructure (SF roadways are littered with potholes and terrible quality), affordable housing and supported citizens.

We have a very tech heavy scene in the city I moved from where people earn 6 figures, with a much higher population and the situation on the ground was nowhere near what it was in SF.

I also take issue with your last statement because it implies I want "the poors" removed purely for my own enjoyment. I do not, I realize the suffering they go through and I want to help support them for their own sake and mine so that I don't have to see them suffer daily.

I have posed this question to other SF residents but how does allowing people to pitch tents on the sidewalk and suffer visibly help them or people just passing through? People that are not vulnerable are suffering because they're visibly seeing these people suffer. Who is winning here?
As Salesforce is basically Oracle, Jr, who wants to take bets on when they kill off the free option (or greatly water down the features), raise the prices to fit better with with Salesforce's pricing, and force-integrate it with the rest of their product stack?
Don't sweat the haters, always feel free to ask legitimate questions. They're the ones who have to look in the mirror and see a person who tries to keep people from learning.
Sure but getting 20 people to live together for an extended period of time is logistically difficult. Two people who already want to be/live together can more easily commit to long economic partnerships like buying a house. It's important to note that while people have been getting married for a long time, having two incomes is relatively new and only recently the norm since women were discouraged from entering the workforce until WW2 and up until the 70s.

Some argue there is a "Two-Income Trap" where having two incomes did make certain things more affordable for the middle class like housing but eventually it simply drove up the price of housing & other goods. So now a dual income is simply normal and only having a single income is a disadvantage. Therefore it's not super surprising to see single young adults moving back home.

In certain super high CoL areas like the Bay Area we do see a bit of a trend towards 3+ communal living (post college) in the form of group homes. While this decreases the burden of real estate prices, in most cases residents are not building up equity in the home since they rent. In some cases they may be saving enough to offset the lack of equity but that's probably not very common.