skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price floor for a barely-usable car in a US state that doesn't require an inspection to register it is probably around $500, but that can fluctuate as low as $0 (I literally watched a friend give a beat up, but driveable old van to a random construction worker in the apartment complex they were moving out of).

$2000 could easily get a 15 year old Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla or similar compact car with a reputation for longevity, without major issues. Shopping in that price range can, however be risky if you're not mechanically inclined enough to inspect the condition of the car and don't have the aid of someone who is.
What the “don’t worry about spending” and “we can just print more money” folks don’t realize is there is a direct line between these policies and wealth inequality.

And yet, so many people seem to both support an easy money environment forever, but also oppose rising wealth inequality without realizing they are intrinsically linked.
Soon the vast majority of vulnerable populations left in the US will be deniers. Should kids have the responsibility to protect those folks at their own small risk? Open question as the numbers are still coming in.
We're not investing. Our kids and grandkids and great grandkids are.
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I am not an astrophysicist, but I don't see any reason to doubt the study's conclusions. But isn't the more pressing question the probability of such a CME hitting the Earth? The sun is not small, and CMEs could be ejected away from it in any direction, I would think relatively few of them hit any of the planets?
"However, his love for physics was intact and urged him to go back to school. Therefore, he enrolled at Princeton University to study physics and mathematics in 1933.

There he wrote a thesis on solid-state physics under the guidance of Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner."

The title is fairly misleading ...
I understand what you're saying. But I think it's different now that everyone is online and sites like Facebook require you to use your real name.

Growing up, I hung out on chat rooms and online gaming servers. And I probably experienced stuff I wasn't ready for. But it was under a pseudonym and all online.

In social apps today, the bullying the kids do to each other is brutal and cuts much deeper because they know other. And, unlike back in my day, you can't just delete your account and log off. The next day in school, you'll see all of the kids who sharing awful doctored photos of you and telling you that you should kill yourself.
> my fellow citizens who didn’t have a chair when the music stopped

You're mixing up two different groups of people: those who lost their job and want a new one but can't find one, with those who just decided they don't feel like working anymore. I'm happy to invest in the former but not the latter.
Please provide a citation for these stats.

We had more kids dying of the flu before, so this reasoning is not really accurate: https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/covid-19/true-or-false-de...
> * The majority of people in the 1930s didn't have 4,000 sq foot houses.*

The majority of people today don't have 4,000 sq. ft houses, don't buy new cars excessively, or take big vacations. You're describing how a small segment of the upper middle class lives.
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The short answer is, it's tough to do it on a single income that's 150k as a family. The lower you are the tougher it gets. There is a reason why even the lowest of the city employees get paid six figure salaries, a plumber charges you $250 and driving lessons are $60/hour. For example, in the city of San Fracisco, to qualify as "low income household", the limit is almost $120k for a family of 4 or $82k for a single person.
> But you can’t argue against the fact that having some kind of government assistance to fall back on makes it much easier to negotiate a higher salary, and will result in higher wages.

It also makes it much easier to start a business. If anyone should be cheering it on it’s entrepreneurs and VCs.
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Can you expand on this? You present a conclusion but i don't know how you arrived there.
I suspect it has todo with getting decked out machines. If you've got the >1tb ssd and the >=32GB RAM model, you will see your OS simply use the ressources for caching and speeding up the machine, which in turn will use more battery.

At least that's my pet theory, running an 4750U with 64GB of RAM installed ;)
The only reason why the current situation is viable is because shipping by sea in containers is so cheap. Should this change due to conflict, or disease, the whole thing falls apart. Shortages within weeks. China will do fine, since they retained all the means of production at home. The big guy will do fine in his second home in the Virgin Islands. He has a backup plan. Do you?
Yes, that's why senators and president are proposing tax hikes.
It does suck and it's a tradeoff of security/privacy. But it's not impossible, you just need to try a bit harder. If you have a jailbroken phone (the latest jailbroken version can almost always run every modern app), it's easy to install iOS SSL Kill Switch. If you don't have a jailbroken phone, you can wrap the app in your own certificate and side load it with hooks that disable the SSL routines.
See also: http://www.retro-remakes.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_remakes_and...
Hi man, congratulations on the launch. How are you monetizing the platform?
Because that goes against raising work, especially as hard and as much as possible, as a virtue, and directly challenges the protestant work ethic [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
A TED talk about these videos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
I agree. Sadly I think some fraction of these people, maybe many tens of thousands, will end up homeless or opting for “van life” as a result of their reorientation to risk.
What resolutions have you watched it in? Since DVD itself is way below 720p.
I went a span of years addicted to a form of social media. After all sorts of silly drama when the dust settled I became completely uninterested. I’d imagine some people have natural immunity and some, like me, had to learn it the hard way.

I’m hoping eventually over time there will be the equivalent to herd immunity. But it’s just wishful thinking.
AWS support completely sucks unless you are paying 10K+ per month for the enterprise support tier.

My average ticket response with paid AWS Developer is probably 72+ hours, and that's just for the initial triage what's up query.

Unless you are either a seasoned Linux developer with many years of Linux internals experience, or you have an enterprise level account, all of the lower class AWS support rungs are largely meaningless.
Kids are overwhelmingly asymptomatic. The post above mentions some risks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27111071
In Russia a few independent newspapers were killed by arresting their bank accounts.

Signal does not let public fund jurnalists.
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Printing money for poor people and printing money for rich people have very different effects on inequality.
Use first principles to consider the likelihood of such a thing even existing.
Well you can I guess for a rough estimate compare your own use of say HN to websites with gamified mechanisms. From my own experience with Reddit HN is considerably less addictive and I attribute it to a large degree to the lack of instant notifications, the plain design and the diminished visibility of up- and downvotes.
Outside of a segment of white collar office workers, many people work more than 5 days a week or 8 hours a day, and they're still poor.
I'm not sure how long ago your story's from but I've heard youtubers mention a recent change in the algorithm that made it so subscribers stopped seeing notifications unless they clicked the notification bell thing.

Apparently, from what a few different channels i watch have mentioned, in some cases they started getting half the amount of views or less compared to before the changes.
> Shall we fix the roads that we drive on with our own dime too?

That's an interesting suggestion given how horrific US infrastructure is. If only they actually fixed the roads we drive on with the trillions of dimes they already take from us.

Let's start with the fact that roads and infrastructure haven't been getting fixed properly for the past 20 to 30 years now despite a massive government expansion in spending and overall size since ~1999. Nearing $8 trillion in total government spending and they can't give us nice infrastructure or fix basic things like roads.

California is supposedly awash in a tax revenue surplus of epic scale, and yet their roads and infrastructure are horrific, akin to developing nation conditions across Los Angeles as a matter of routine the past 10-15 years.

edit: the downvotes are amusing, given how absolutely atrocious US infrastructure is, and given there is probably nobody left on this planet that doesn't know how bad it is. Every single person reading this knows how bad it is and how poor of a job the US has done at allocating its tax revenue the past several decades. It has been discussed endlessly here on HN for a decade or more, and now I point out that fact of reality and it's unpopular; un huh, sure.
Government spending doesn't depend on taxes; it depends on the Fed printing (actually, just changing numbers in spreadsheets). That's why we've been able to fight half a dozen stupid costly wars in less than a generation without raising taxes. It will be a win for humanity if we find better uses for our reserve currency status than fighting stupid wars.

https://heterodox.economicblogs.org/multiplier-effect/2018/b...
I would bet that > 75% of the top 50 apps use SSL pinning. Apple makes it really easy to do and it's an obvious first defense against reverse engineering.
Vaccination of children is not required to reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19 to a number asymptotically approaching zero.

Focusing myopically on "transmission rate" misses the broader conversation about risk and benefit. Giving tens/hundreds of thousands of kids an illness on par with the flu to marginally reduce the theoretical risk of illness in an unvaccinated stranger...this is a choice that can be made, but I think it's a tougher decision than you do.
Thank goodness. I'm sick of programming pointless shit; I want to be paid to automate things humans actually toil at.
In addition to Ireland and the UK, we can also hire in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden. Paris and Madrid are also options.
> Because of this dedicated data warehouses…use column-oriented storage and don't have indexes.

Well, that’s not really correct is it.
ClickHouse for one definitely has them as Snowflake the last time I used it.

This is a lot of work to go through to avoid using the right tool for the job. Just use something like ClickHouse or even DuckDB and reap the benefits of better performance with less caveats.
This book was particularly poignant to read during the early months of COVID, pandemics and viruses play an important role in his “Neolithic species resettlement camps”
Hahaha wow, right at the bottom of your 'website

>Join fellow patriots as we keep Americans informed and advance the cause of conservatism

At least link the study[1], instead of that piece of shit website, whose' article'btw is no more than some rando's fucked up words on an already stupid 'poll'.

[1] https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/survey-reports/...
> IMHO you lead by example, and you set the example here that it’s normal to work at 2am.

It is normal to work at 2am if you work the way I and most of my associates work.

I think it's fairly common for hackers and other deep-thinking types to work very intensely for 2-5 minutes at a bunch of different times all throughout the day.
As long as it's still legal, my wife wont budge. Some people are just scared and want nothing to do with it until it's mandatory.
I’ve found that most people seek fulfillment by being useful. Being useful means that you can see how your labor benefits the people in your community. Many jobs that exist today don’t feel useful because there are too many layers of abstraction between the labor and the societal benefit. Many people even feel that their labor is a net negative for society. Unemployment benefits may provide a living but I don’t think it’s viable for your soul long term because you know you’re not being useful. However, it’s better than working hard for no good reason and getting paid the same, or less.

If our society is too efficient, we run out of ways to give people meaning.
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Support being slow and support being bad are two different things.

Billing team is separate anyway. You get a better "treatment" if you're paying (as in, they will look at your case closer), but you have access to the same service regardless.
My son had some trouble at age 2 or 3 speaking his Rs. I remembered exactly that cartoon (30 years later) and tried to get him to imitate a car noise with it. Worked like a charm!
Three out of almost a hundred million is not significantly lower than the risks outlined here, truth is we don't have enough info on the risks to decide:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27111071
I'd honestly love to hear what child psychologists and social anthropologists think about that bit in Sesame Street.

For example, is it suggesting (or reinforcing) the idea of looking for differences/nonconformism in their child peers, and if so, what are the implications of that?
No, they don’t. Money printed and given to poor people is immediately spent and trickles up to the ownership class. Inflation in the US tends to push up prices of limited assets, like real estate, rent, and investments faster than wages.

The only way to increase welfare programs without increasing wealth inequality is to pay for your spending with taxation.
Sincere question: why is this better than going with the vast array of mutual funds and ETFs available? Is it the return rate? Something else?

It seems like your typical ETF or mutual fund is easier to get into and get out of, just a few clicks on your brokerage of choice.

Your answer brought up the obvious general answer: the only way to make passive income from investments is to already have a lot of money. To me there's a point where the method of investment almost seems like an irrelevant detail.
Dog and bird training, growing plants, etc
Spend what's needed, then take in what's needed to balance it out, through a combination of taxes and debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
No, raising the minimum wage subsidizes innovation. It's better for the people and the technology.

The only risk is that if gets so high there is more incentive for illegal work. That's one reason why UBI is better.
Nonsense, AWS is an industry leader in use of the asterisk. With exception to perhaps S3 and AWS Lambda, the predominant majority of AWS services are cloaked with accounting legalese and hidden billing gotchas that can easily result in a several thousand dollar bill within days if you don't analyze every aspect of AWS service offerings including their EULAs and acceptable use policies.

So yes, it was bad form for OP to not establish billing alerts, but you can't in any way say that AWS is transparent about most aspects of their service tiers.
And it didn't even occur to you that they're doing it based on the taxes they already paid themselves?
That was beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

> Anyone who wants seriously to look at this problem needs to grapple with the following: preferring one's beliefs to counterevidence is not just a property of "crazy/stupid people", but of humans in general, including oneself and everyone on one's own side. This is a difficult fact to face, and to the extent one can face it, I think it changes everything. Even if one makes the smallest beginning at doing so, it already starts to change everything.

I wonder if this isn't just thermodynamic in a sense. It might take a lot more energy to change a belief or network of them than not doing so.
"I suggest offering more money instead"
To an extent that's true, but this type of sentiment is airily tossed around by people who've never had to make payroll. There's often little or even no profit to be made at the rate offered - should the business increase their offer to the point where a loss is guaranteed?
Dumb idea: would adjusting for the temporary audience from the big YouTuber still result in a net increase in views and subscribers?
It's to ensure organization knowledge get passed down.
Kurzgesagt has a nice and objective summary on the topic. If I remember correctly, 50% chance of a big one hitting us over the next 50 years (or by 2050, can't remember exactly):
https://youtu.be/oHHSSJDJ4oo
I think that depends on what happens with plastics. If the rest of the economy moves away from petrochemical extraction, fossil fuels become scarce. You’ll still get methane from landfills, of course, but SpaceX needs it too. We can afford it environmentally but I can easily see hydrocarbons tripling in price.
And cash is instant everywhere.
Anti-racism is on trend this year.
"US Liberalism is a pro-censorship movement"? The available evidence seems to agree...
I think that's probably a bit harsh. Marketing is hard. Try coming up with a new idea for a car advertisement. What can you do that already hasn't been done?
Full abandonment of Intel

standardization on the M-series in iPhone and iPad (beyond the Pro)
Are you aware of a justification for this?
> Apple's M1 is in a class of its own, unfortunately.

We want companies to excel and give a stiff competition to their peers. Now that we have M1, it's pushing the entire floor to the next level - pushing Intel, AMD and the entire x86 ecosystem.

Curious, why do you think it's unfortunate? Is it because Apple is a large company?
I remember watching a similar video of Royal Marines demonstrating jet packs in the 1980s. What’s old is new again.
I had the opposite reaction: running analytics against the database you are already using feels like a lot less work to me than adopting an additional tool and solving the problem of synchronizing your data to it.
Chromebooks do pretty well, apparently? Maybe it has to do with the amount of integration with the OS.

> The average Chromebook lasts 9 hours and 58 minutes, according to the data we’ve collected on the Chrome OS devices we’ve reviewed thus far.

https://www.laptopmag.com/best-picks/chromebooks-with-the-lo...
More likely, the delayed notification thing was originally some kind of bug, and the bug fix tanked metrics, so they reverted the fix. I'm sure there was no conscious and deliberate effort to psychologically manipulate the user, but laser-guided metrics hill-climbing can produce the same thing without any one person deciding to do it.
Isn’t this the classic argument about how Athenian democracy dies? Either a majority oppresses a minority or the people start voting for excesses until the society goes bankrupt
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Your comment would have been a reasonable one 20 years ago.

However, the underlying narrative today is that math is being attacked as white supremacist and objective by cultural Marxists.

("white supremacist" used to mean KKK, but today it means "all white people.")
For the future create a CloudWatch billing alert so that this doesn't happen again.
That says nothing.
Economy of scale is an indispensable aspect of any competent engineering effort. Any reasonably adept AWS engineer would always include cost considerations for any change to AWS backend architecture, including helping the client decide which service tier makes the most sense for a particular application's use case...
The ebpf-for-windows maintainers have been working with the PREVAIL verifier maintainers for some time now on improving the implementation for everyone, since we agree that addressing such limitations is critical. For example, the PREVAIL maintainers added program termination verification back in January 2021. Check it out at https://github.com/vbpf/ebpf-verifier
Borrowing to build a bridge is economically rational. Borrowing to pay someone who could work not to isn’t. That’s not an investment, it’s just debt. (Debt that has to be paid back, usually with another person's labor.)

If people want these programs, do the hard work and start championing for large tax increases.
One plausible mechanism out of thousands. The trouble is that it was a plausible mechanism before the study too. What have we gained?
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Even not large banks/fintech often add more records daily.
If the politicians aren't whipping up support when the deadline looks, they are worse at politics than I thought.
If you want really passive income, try municipal bonds, most are tax free at Federal and state level.
For all the talk of "lazy Europeans", I hope this has opened some Americans eyes. It's insane to me we don't have the equivalent of their summer "holiday". We work hard enough the rest of the year, taking a break should be a badge of honor, not shame.
Stimulus is what’s allowing people to reassess.

There’s a presumption that this is isolated to low-skill workers enjoying high unemployment benefits. However, stimulus has also greatly benefitted anyone owning assets which are more often high skilled workers.

The incentives are the same. If you have enough money you can quit working if you want.

A little pay bump isn’t going to bring someone out of early retirement and a high skill job can’t be filled by anyone.
I think Steve jobs was mainly looking at the cost vs potential profits of Opendoc. There was a lot of ongoing engineering money going into development, and the potential revenue streams seemed too niche for the amount of effort. From his perspective it was better to move the talent to more strategic projects that matched his 5-10 year vision. He wanted to pivot to chasing end users, not to expanding the existing developer base. In the long run it worked, with a lot of short term pain.
Research means you look up the TVs you're considering buying in a giant chart on websites dedicated to this.

Reading the manual doesn't help when your TV doesn't have a fast mode. And many don't.
Apple caught up and then surpassed x86. ARM designs are a joke. Compare Surface Pro X to an M1 Mac.

If the ARM ISA was inherently so much better it would be easy for Qualcomm and Samsung to release top performance ARM laptops, but they can't.

Apple is so far ahead of everyone right now.
I can't imagine a hand-crank actually providing enough energy to power a laptop for any practical period of time?
> I realize (now) that CloudWatch exists, but not sure why this isn't standard.

CloudWatch is standard AWS, or what do you mean?

Amazon gives you all the tools to monitor your usage and management of the cloud. You did not use those tools, had sloppy security and now it is Amazon's fault?

Take it as an expensive lesson learned. And get someone who knows what they are doing in AWS to administer it. Maybe your company was pennywise pound foolish by not having someone who knew AWS?
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Excellent point. Also Apple has a unique advantage of hardware + OS all built under their control and carefully optimized.

Regular chip companies can't influence their customers as well as Apple's hardware team influences the OS departments.