skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDP isn’t equivalent to salary. GDP is the measure of the economy’s production as a whole. not the governments cut. If you compare tax revenues, which is their salary the picture is much more stark.

(in this situation GDP is more like the value you create for your company whereas salary is like tax revenue)
Just throwing in my two cents. I have a friend that got a 750.000€ credit to buy a house and a Tesla.

Myself, I'm rather well off in terms of money, but not so wealthy, and I kept away from getting credit. What would happen in case of this pardon? Would he get to keep his assets thus increasing his wealth by almost a million euros just like that?
Binning chips for yield is different from artificially crippling chips. There's nothing wrong with taking an 8-core CPU with a defect in one core and selling it as a 6-core part, or underclocking it until all 8 cores are stable and selling it as a slower part. The odious part happens when fab defect rates drop and yield improves, so basically all the dies can function as 8-core chips. When that happens, Intel et al. start disabling perfectly functional cores to artificially constrain the supply of high-end parts. That's a pretty clear cut market failure that's only possible because the barriers to entry are so high.

The most extreme instance of this that I'm aware of was when Intel sold a ~$50 piece of software that would unlock the rest of the L2 cache on a specific low-end processor model. They didn't say it might work on your chip; every instance of that model had apparently passed QA with the full cache enabled but shipped with a fourth of it (IIRC) disabled. So Intel wasn't saving any money or harvesting any otherwise-unusable parts with that model. They were just price fixing.

Product segmentation for software is also a different issue, because all the scarcity is artificial to begin with, with no natural underlying supply curves because there's no marginal cost to making another copy.
ASICs are great for Bitcoin because B’s algo strains the math features of a chip. An ASIC can bake a whole iteration of the algo into a single, huge instruction.

Many people in the community don’t like ASICs in crypto because they believe their high cost and rarity creates a hurdle for mass adoption. Every kid playing games on their computer has a GPU, but it’s much harder for that same kid to get their hands in an ASIC. Mass adoption by all kinds of people, not just already rich corporations, is important to the security and the mission of crypto.

In response, Ethereum was designed to have an algo that stresses your RAM rather than your processor. This reduces the advantage of ASICs tremendously. You can’t drive RAM much harder than GPUs already do. And so, Eth and many other memory-hard cryptos are still mined on GPUs.
I was a teetotaler until my late 20s when I decided to try to develop a taste for wine for social reasons. Fast-forward 30 years and today my wife and I have a cocktail and a glass of wine most nights. That sounds like two drinks, but one day I started measuring how much alcohol I was actually putting in to the cocktails and they turned out to be triples. So technically we're having 4 drinks a day. We get a slight buzz, but never feel impaired, never drink before dinner time, and never have hangovers. When we travel we will often go a few days without drinking at all and it's no problem. A few years ago I bought a blood-alcohol meter and have never registered above the legal limit, even immediately when I feel buzzed. The highest I've ever registered is 0.04. And over the years I've used three difference BAC meters with consistent results.

I think the conclusion to draw here is not that having 4-5 drinks a day is no big deal, but that different people react to alcohol and other drugs differently. For some people, like me, it turns out to be no big deal. For others I'm pretty sure it would be a very big deal. A one-size-fits-all drug policy is never going to work.
> I never worked like a dog for the place in my story, at least. It had a very sane work/life balance.

For sure not every single startup overworks it’s employees, and not every overworked employee works at a startup. But there is a very common (but not universal!) trend for startup employees to be encouraged to overwork themselves so that their options will be worth more in the long run.

Your mileage may vary, as yours did.
I knew this was Oracle before I googled “flexcube”.

This is what happens when Oracle just bangs out UI elements with whatever tool they use for it that just check off a list of product features.

There’s literally no design happening here.

Need a banking app? Give me the features... bang flexcube.

Need CSR software? List of features...

Need inventory management? ...

They’ve been doing this shit for years and winning deals because they’re “enterprise”
Maybe. A billion here, a billion there. Judging from that UI and overview of their process/controls, I can't imagine this was the first time something like this happened.

It seems noteworthy because they didn't quickly restructure the debt. They weren't throwing money into random accounts, they accidentally sent payments early.
Not quite. They paid on behalf of of Revlon which is unable to pay.

Effectively, Citibank bought a 500m loan at par when its trading at 43c to the dollar. So Citi just gave the lenders a little over $250m and now is stuck with a non performing loan.
I built an AOT compiler for Whitespace with its own SSA-form intermediate representation that lowers to LLVM IR. Whitespace is very similar to a minimal Forth, except, well, syntax. Since StoneKnifeForth has no filesystem access, only stdin and stdout, the principles could be easily adapted for Whitespace.

https://github.com/andrewarchi/nebula
NYC is 20c as well.
> We should be promoting safe use and harm reduction education

for existing users. We should not tempt people who would have otherwise never used them with false fantasies that they will be able to dabble and remain in control without getting addicted
Dapr gives you some capabilities that libraries don't have. at first we had the same concerns, but for our use case it works really well. We're using Dapr with Redis and it gives us state versioning using etags which is something Redis doesn't natively have. there's a bunch more features it adds like scoping and consistency.
Ah, Ariba. I am currently getting an email every day from Ariba stating that I need to approve the purchase of my company laptop (that was purchased 3 months ago, currently sitting on my desk). The email also threatens me that if I don't approve the purchase, it will be escalated to my manager. As a lowly software dev I don't have the ability to approve anything in Ariba. Because it is assigned to me, apparently no one else can approve it either.
I have a 1989 marked Model M I still use. Its all original. I have to use a PS/2 to USB dongle but it still works great.
Butterfly keyboard / low-travel.

Am I the only person who has grown to love the butterfly keyboard? It take sooo much stress of my of joints to type since the travel is so shallow. I also type considerably faster with the shallower/lower travel required.

I know folks had issues with reliability with he design but I guess I'm on the of the lucky few who hasn't had issues.
Your mind is playing tricks on you, my dear. The biggest problem in addiction is the rationalization.
And here I thought this was going to be about the "reply all" function of e-mail.
> The problem is we can't yet map a person's neurons well enough to know their motivations as to why they don't want to see the other person punished

We don't need to "map" Samantha Geimer's neurons to understand her motivations. We can listen to what she has to say herself about that topic, in her media interviews, in the book she wrote, on Twitter. Have you listened to what she has to say? Or are you saying that it doesn't matter what she says? Isn't that denying her a voice, and denying her agency? And, isn't denying her agency what Polanski did to her to begin with?

> This line of reasoning is part of why DV cases move forward even if the victim doesn't want to.

In many cases of domestic violence, the victim may still be under psychological domination by the abuser, and I agree in those circumstances there may be times when it is right to overrule the victim's wish that their abuser goes unprosecuted.

But in this case, Geimer and Polanski haven't see each other in person in over 40 years. She has had her own life – she married, had kids, a career. She explains her desire that the case be dropped as about what's good for her – escaping the continuing retraumatisation by the legal system and the media. I really don't see any evidence here that she is presently (or even recently) being psychologically dominated by Polanski.

If Geimer, as a thirteen year old, was arguing that Polanski shouldn't be prosecuted, I think it would be legitimate to overrule that wish. But, when she's arguing that as a fifty-seven year old, I don't think overruling her wishes is still legitimate. And, take note, her problem was not with the original prosecution in itself – she was happy with the original outcome that Polanski pled guilty and she didn't have to testify. Her objection is to the case being dragged on for decades against her will.

She's also angry about the judicial misconduct in the case – which, who cares about whether it hurt Polanski, it harmed her (the judge's unprofessionalism betrayed the victim); and by people who want to use the events of her life for political and media ends – it's her trauma not theirs, yet people want to use her trauma for their own ends without consulting her.

I get the impression a lot of people don't care about the actual detailed facts of this case, they just want to cling to the principle, and if Geimer's welfare and agency have to be sacrificed for their principle, so be it.
We experienced these blatantly false promises from FB, so we stopped buying ads from them. Hoping to get a few tenths of a penny on the dollar back from them from this lawsuit. Hoping it hurts them a bit more than a few tenths of a penny on the dollar, though.
That doesn't answer my question. There's definitely shady stuff happening at bitfinex/tether and they should be investigated, but that's not evidence for your claim that bitfinex issued tethers because they couldn't service withdraws.
I think for clang that's the purpose of -fsanitize=undefined and -fsanitize=nullability. If some undefined behavior isn't caught by the sanitizer, clang doesn't use it for optimization.
I had the opportunity to go down to JPL and speak with team members about this design decision. The space hardened processors are not fast enough to do real time sensor fusion and flight control, so they were forced to move to the faster snapdragon. This processor will have not flips on Mars, possibly up to every few minutes. Their solution is to hold two copies of memory and double check operations as much as possible, and if any difference is detected they simply reboot. Ingenuity will start to fall out of the sky, but it can go through a full reboot and come back online in a few hundred milliseconds to continue flying.

In the far future where robots are exploring distant planets, our best tech troubleshooting tool is to turn it off and turn it on again.
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Sites, blogs, YouTube channel, gaming, any project that is making money
Don't forget about the amphetamines and cocaine... I actually think more than half of people in tech take something regularly
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'Slinging cat' is slang for selling methcathinone.
Interestingly, this doesn't change the meaning of your first sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methcathinone
That just makes the actual value come from people that need to buy real assets or non-invested money. In both cases it mostly comes out of the common man and makes rich people richer. But it's not as bad as a total market failure. This system sucks.
The problem with that attitude is when the body count gets high enough, there is incredible pressure to 'do something' - because enough people are terrible at judging this (or don't have the right friend group, or whatever) that we end up with huge crime problems, destroyed lives, and other social ills.

The libertarian 'you can do what you want and it's your own responsibility' is great until the people who obviously made the wrong decision stop quietly owning the results of their decisions and start murdering random people for money to fund their habit.

An argument can be made that the answer is free heroin and mental health treatment of course, and maybe it is the right answer. It seems hard for societies to accept however, outside of some very niche locations (Netherlands) though.
This is something I wish was noted more often. When I'm searching for something on Amazon, I have intentionally visited that storefront and am willfully handing them my data (in the form of search and browsing history); of course Amazon is going to keep that and use it to personalize my results. Frankly that's part of their value add, so this is neither surprising nor particularly upsetting.

What's surprising to most people (and should be the focus of any litigation, imho) is precisely this third-party data sharing. It's partly why the cookie law drives me nuts, since it's made all tracking the bogeyman, and in reality, most first party "tracking" is completely benign. If companies would agree not to sell or share my data with third parties (law enforcement serving a warrant being the major exception) then I have no real issue with the tech. The blatant sharing, and especially ad networks make my blood boil.
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Heroin is already relatively cheap and accessible to addicts. The bigger issue right now is the latter part, helping people get off the drug and contamination, ex. fentanyl. I agree with everything else though.
until you have to refinance the debt because you haven’t paid any of it off and it’s matured and rates are way higher...
You're an outlier. The vast majority of people who smoke opium or experience euphoria from taking medical grade heroin will obtain the urge to do it more.
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"Well we can now only inhabit 2% of the planet after the ice caps melted and flooded the rest, and it rains acid every day, and we haven't seen the sun in a decade, but for awhile, we generated so much value for shareholders. It was beautiful."
That is a fair statement. I hadn't taken this idea into just politics, just the more general 'leadership'.
Slack thought right; they did sell to businesses. Microsoft came later to the game, leveraging their size to both undercut them (with a feature rich free plan), and offer an integrated suite with the productivity tools that enterprises are already using (with Microsoft 365).

Which is probably one reason why Slack is looking to sell to Salesforce.

My point being I don't think Slack's positioning was "chat but prettier". The fact Teams is more dominant now seems more to do with bundling.
It doesn't take much imagination to see some pretty early-20th-century level outcomes from current trends.
More debt generally leads to more economic growth. More trade leads to more economic growth. Those are true statements.

They also lead to brittle economic systems.

In 1900, if everyone was asked to stay home for 3 months, they'd go home for 3 months, and come out not-too-much-worse for the wear. In 2020, when the same happened, crippling mortgage payments, leases, and similar caused a near-total implosion.

Likewise, in 2020, we nearly saw global supply chain break down. In 1800, a global economic crisis couldn't do too much to a town in the midwest growing its own food. In 2020, if, for example, TSMC were to go wonky due to China taking Taiwan, we'd lose over half of our IC manufacturing capacity, including critical components for virtual every other electronic device made.

We're wound really tight. The danger is systemic collapse.
Wow look at all of the comments about wokeness and cancel culture here.

Look I like the show and listen to it often, but there seems to be a lot to the allegations in the linked Twitter thread from the article [0]. Maybe read that before posting more memes about the left eating its own?

People in leadership actively trying to block formation of a union and badmouthing its leaders is pretty shitty looking, especially if they are then turning around and using their platform to call out others for doing the same thing.

[0] https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1361789128006897668?ref_...

Edit: grammar
not really a hot take, this is more or less the mainstream opinion. it's also unfalsifiable. you can take anyone who chimes in to say they use heroin responsibly as more evidence for your claim.

personally I lean more in the direction that heroin and friends are significantly more addictive than most other drugs. but I have to say, if there were a sizable group of recreational users, they would probably know better than to ever say anything about it in public.
You should head over to Indie Hackers (https://indiehackers.com)
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Excuse the snark, but any chance it was funded by the Sacklers?
I think this is our core disagreement distilled down.

I think Ballmer couldn’t have done it, he was too tied up personally in windows.

Some of the examples you mention under Ballmer are more examples of strategic failure under his watch. Xbox is the easiest example, the Xbox One’s launch was awful and focus on cable boxes was bad.

I don’t think it took a while for investors to realize, I think investors had an accurate model of what was going on. When Ballmer left things improved.
They still crash though..
Pricing can only be negotiated properly when a buyer and seller are sufficiently educated about the market and the products.

Very few people are sufficiently knowledgeable about medicine and healthcare to be able to discern an appropriate price (much less determine if what they are buying is even necessary or not).

Hence society relies on #1) trust by assuming healthcare providers are acting on good faith and #2) a knowledgeable actor providing a second opinion such as a government healthcare payer like the NHS in the UK or private insurance companies in the USA, who employ teams of doctors and pharmacists to review people’s cases and determine appropriate levels care.

For example, if you have a plumbing problem, you can call 5 plumbers and get educated and make an informed decision. With a healthcare emergency, lack of time and lack of healthcare providers and other resources makes that an untenable solution.
You use ICE/StUN servers to solve this.
I'm a miner (7x3070, 2x3080, 1x3090) and I support this nerf. The reason is because I am also a gamer, and it's always regrettable that cryptocurrency mining has made gaming cards out of reach.
I gave the money back when I realised what had happened, which was about 5 minutes later.
Thank you, I love it. This is so great for a quick ls or cd in between.

Turns out it wasn't the terminal that was eating my Ctrl-q, but the key wasn't bound in my zsh.

The page you linked says
push-line (^Q ESC-Q ESC-q) (unbound)(unbound)

Does that mean that in a standard config push-line is bound to Ctrl-q?
> you can never be sensitive enough

> just a complaint about “the culture”

> this is dumb ... is this really the place to grind the diversity and unionization axe

> race to the bottom for wokeness

It's a workplace dispute that has become public because the show they produce is critiquing another workplace that had a similar dispute. The hypocrisy involved there is the reason for this being reported so widely. Every workplace has a dispute at some point and sometimes these disputes result in people moving within or away from the company. The parties at Gimlet involved surely could see the parallels between the story and themselves, but didn't address this publicly in the first episode so it strikes me that they either hoped it wouldn't come up or didn't feel it was hypocritical, both of which feel naive and this result would have been avoided if they just addressed this obviously-forthcoming controversy head-on.

But sure, paint this up as "woke-millienials-coming-to-cancel-your-life-choices" if it makes you feel better. That's not what's happening, but it sounds like maybe you need it to be.
There are ASICs for Bitcoin and other coins that use SHA. Ethereum and other "later" cryptocurrencies using hashing algorithms that are memory-hard and there aren't efficient ASICs for those. If you're mining Ethereum or ZCash or something, you're using GPUs
It means "The people's names are irrelevant to the actual event that happened. Especially when they're rank-and-file engineers and not people in positions of power."
Class action lawsuit coming in 3,2..
> Some of the creditors sent the money back. But others refused, leaving Citibank out $500 million.
Yes. I gave it back.
No one is comparing anything. Computing ratios of stocks (balances) to annual flows is standard procedure. We do it for countries (debt/annual gdp is a commonly used ratio), for companies (debt/annual EBITDA is a commonly used leverage ratio), and for individuals (household debt/annual income is a commonly used ratio).
Facebook is not an advertising company. They're a parasitic revenue laundering company. They feed off the cashflow of soon-to-be-bankrupt startups as part of giant global VC-fueled pyramid money laundering scheme. Founders get paid to take huge loans on their startup's books and run their startups straight into the ground while laundering all their capital to beef up Facebook's revenue for the benefit of big VCs and their crony capitalist friends who own Facebook shares. The shell company's employees and regular tax payers (who lose value via monetary inflation caused by these dubious bank loans) take the fall while all the key participants of the scheme get off scot free.

Rince and repeat; real definition of 'serial entrepreneur'.
Nvidia Redesigns Graphics Cards to Limit Their Use in Ethereum Mining
This could be the win-win-win for all parties, if only the cuda cores on the die have to be known good, it could mean, that the yield of nvidia goes up, gamers get their gpus with graphics, and miners get a card that can mine for a limited amount of time but then can't go into secondary market.
Google is very aware of this, which is why Google Ventures is a thing. It's much better, ironically, to put yourself in a position to only provide benefits to another company and prevent yourself from extracting any benefit for yourself.
Somewhat off-topic, but does anyone know the reason Inria seems to have developed such a specialisation around these types of tools? I get why you'd be there today, but is there a common link/person when that started? If so, I'd love a little nudge about where to find out more.

Edit: Thanks for responses. And a warning to others: don't start following links to advisers and students in Wikipedia, it never finishes.
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I remember not too long ago Uber cancelling previous arrangements with Facebook advertising over a similar fraud.
You’re still taking a substantial risk when forming that generalized understanding, and then another substantial risk when you start making conclusions from that general understanding.

And for what?
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I saw this guy on Rogan and his claim that opioids weren't addictive just isn't born out by the facts
As a regular European reader of the NYT, even the stronger left leaning columns from people such as Krugman/Kristof contain mostly opinions that are often considered "common sense" on our side of the pond.

Maybe your opinion has more to do with how weird and dispatched from reality American politics has become and less with how the NYT wants to brainwash you, or whatever you think they're doing?