skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is saying it doubled after women joined the workforce. Not that it has doubled over the past half century.

And your father was well off compared to what is described in the Parent's comment. Some good evidence of my point is that the average house in 1950 was about 1000 sq ft and had one bathroom.

Today, the average American home is about 2800 sq ft with multiple full bathrooms.

Another example is that in 1950, very few American families owned more than one automotible. Today it is normal to own 2, 3, or 4.

Food is much cheaper as a percentage of income, travel has gotten dramatically cheaper, and of course cheap technology and entertainment is coming out of our ears.

Not to mention modern medicine and creature comforts such as year round air conditioning in the home and auto.

People who think there has been a decline in the average Americans living standard since 1950 are either misinformed or trying to push a sketchy political agenda.
This is a beautiful example of how to teach math and computer science (or simply, introducing students to "programming" or "coding") at the same time.
100% agreed. Robin Hobb (Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden) was without a doubt my favourite author as a teenager.

Sadly, in the last 10 years, I've barely read anything. However, when The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy came out, you can bet I made time to read it!
I’m afraid that whales are precisely as smart as they need to be to strain krill, navigate, and reproduce.
I don’t know if apartment living has changed the brains of Americans but I don’t know many guys who when hearing it’ll be/waiting more than an hour or two, wouldn’t just go buy a plunger and drain cleaner.

Necessity is the mother of invention, or in this case: learning something new (if you haven’t done it before).

I moved to Thailand 8 1/2 years ago. I fully expect to buy a less-than-stellar house when we move back to Australia and do a lot of the renovations myself, using the skills I was forced to learn here, because of a lack of reliable tradesmen.
This, thank you for the paradoxical views most have on the 'hard workers'. Up until mental problems become undeniable these people are exploited.
Intel's margins are dropping fast, so you're probably right that something is going on.

> Intel said its gross margin, the percentage of revenue remaining after deducting the cost of production, was 55.2%, down more than five percentage points from the same period in 2020. This is a key indicator of the strength of its manufacturing and product pricing. Intel has historically delivered margins above 60%.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/intel-falls-most-i...
I think the argument is that if there’s an advanced enough civilisation in our neighbourhood, it would have precluded us from evolving.
That is not a norm today either.
Who can? Seriously.

Either:

trust you are smart enough, and we almost always are, and commit to hard work

, or

abandon it and move on something lower risk, lower cost, but with a respectable or worthy reward

, or

seek help.

Rough place to be in, frankly. I do not envy you. :(

And what of the rewards?

You might try valuing them this way:

Actual value = (predicted value * risk) - (cost * time)
> In a game where everyone has some guaranteed basic standard of living you would expect the competition to be less fierce.

And how can you, or anyone, guarantee something like that? The standard of living we have, however imbalanced it might be, is a byproduct of fierce competition.

To guarantee any kind of basic standard of living, specially one without even more fierce competition, the only alternatives are: a much much lower standard of living, much lower, or, a much much intense exploitation of natural resources. Pick your poison, as they are both catastrophic, and there is no third option.
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Impossible is a term that is probably much stronger than you meant to use. I grew up in a family of 8 (many adopted children) in American surburbia, on one income, and we never wanted for much. The breadwinner never even breached a six figure income.

And this was not long ago. I have likely been around the sun fewer times than you have.
> The marginal cost for a new subscriber is practically zero, so there should be no price increase caused by a shortage.

This is true in a vacuum. With a bigger customer base a company will need to invest more in support. Also, in the case of Netflix, they need to invest more in sourcing content to cater to the now increasingly varied demands of their customers or else they'll lose them to competition who might also be offering their products at the same rate.
Loved Robin Hobb when I was a kid. I read a LOT of fantasy back then and she was up the top of the list next to GRRM for me.

The closest thing to traditional fantasy I have read in a very long time is Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, and now I am bit broken trying to chase a similar hit. If anyone has any recommends to scratch the post BOTNS itch please do share.
You can still do this. You might not have people in your social circle and family who meet these criteria, but it's happening all around you. Just anecdotally in my own family, I've got 20something nieces and nephews who own homes and are raising multiple children on single salaries with a stay-at-home parent, two cars, and a comfortable life. Sure, it's not easy, but it's not that unusual. They're happy, comfortable, and self-sufficient.
> What do you mean parody? This is really good.

What do you mean? I said it's not parody.
Women joining the (paid) workforce happened smoothly over a few decades.

And I believe the relevant economic effect was not so much an increase in the price of consumer goods but a suppression of wages, which otherwise might have been expected to grow at a rate closer to that of the GDP.
opps - it's SWCC*. Can't seem to find the heavier version, but it was based on the SOC-R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Craft_%E2%8...
What you saw might have been ball lightning.

A friend and I saw one when we were kids. I only came to find out what it was many years later. From the distance it looked no different than an airplane light until it got really close, around 30ft from us. It looked like a ball of white light, a bit larger than a basketball. There was no clear contour, like when you look at a very bright lamp. It made no noise whatsoever. We lost it from sight for a moment and it was gone.

I'm not totally sure but I think the sky was clear that night.
Right, so they are intelligent in a different way, which I would argue is going to be no different with the aliens we discover. Their language will be intractable. As for scientific inquiries, that’s kind of unknowable and dubious considering that whales can get quite inventive with their hunting techniques, involving experimentation and cunning in a way that’s pretty similar to the scientific method of inquiry with hypothesis testing. Technology, I will grant that’s an exception.
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That's true but I suspect for all intents and purposes the cost delta is pretty marginal.
They’re biologically related to us, and yet we still can’t communicate with them. That should show how motivated or able we are to figure out language with other species.
I have no doubt that Elon brings zero expertise to the table with regards to machine learning and automation. That's certainly not his domain of expertise—which is more in the realm of science and physics.

In this respect I'd imagine he's more akin to an overly excited tech geek who loves to obsess over the progress made by Andrej Karpathy and his team, but is otherwise leaving them alone to do their thing.
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Sacrificing?
I'm a cynic, but rich investors will be bailed out like in 2008. Crypto will be allowed to crater since it's owned by small holders.

If you want to be protected when the bubble pops, buy what rich companies do. Real estate and blue chip stocks
> how would something like a data-diode work in real life?

The ones I have worked with convert a TCP stream to UDP, send it across the diode, and then convert it back to TCP. Each UDP packet has a sequence number and there is a single reverse-diode that is fired when a packet is missed or arrives out of order that triggers a retransmission of the last N packets.
In the past I've been told "Well, [name] did it that way, why can't you?". Which is also a form of management deflection, where they don't want to find more resources or admit the process is broken, so they deflect the burden back onto the employee.
In my view, an article that makes claims in the natural sciences published on “some person’s blog” is not really worth considering as a scientific work.
For a huge portion of this country it's apparently too difficult to acquire an ID. How on earth are they going to open any bank account?
Fair enough. I was just responding to your statement that guitar makes music theory more difficult. I'm not an expert in either instrument, and I think they each have their advantages and disadvantages. I like how scales and chord shapes (i.e. barre chords) are movable up and down the neck. It really taught me about transposing music and playing in different keys. On piano, a major triad chord looks different depending on the root note.

Today I was trying out the Sweet Child O' Mine intro and that's in a different tuning, although the shapes remain the same. (it's like capo -1). I know Drop D or other tunings can change the shapes for sure. However, for a casual guitarist, we can just concentrate on standard tuning and learn all the music theory that way.

For piano, I only know of Just Intonation and Equal Temperament, which still have the notes in the same orders. Although theoretically you could string and tune a piano differently....
Did BBVA "consolidate" Simple, or provide a soft landing for them? If Simple wasn't long-term viable anyways, it's hard to see consolidation as the problem here.
First of all, armies operate abroad (for good reason). And they don't collect taxes there.

Secondly, the entity that collects and spends taxes, is not the entity that prints the money (also for good reason). So in the end your government is just a user like any other user in the fiat system.

If most IT consultants demand to get paid in crypto, and government wants to hire IT consultants, then government will try to get their hands on crypto. Same deal but reversed.

There is no point in a government collecting taxes when they cannot spend it.
ATM it's mainly affecting GPUs so it depends on which GPU is included and the Delta to the prince on the secondhand market.

Like one where I'm at, the 6700xt is going at about MSRP +$500
I get the argument from the fed about hedonic adjustments and increased quality of life, but that's not how people measure their happiness. Subjective happiness is how you're doing relative to those around you. The hedonic adjustments are all about objective quality of life. Sure, my resources in my working class midwest neighborhood would be the envy of Louis XVI's court, but that doesn't matter to me when my neighbor gets a new car.

I wonder how difficult it would be to build a "Subjective Inflation" measure that was useful. Based on category consumption by income quintile you can figure out rough price inflation experienced. With the understanding that happiness is mostly about keeping up with the Joneses you can just assume away the hedonic quality boost and call it "subjective inflation".

The point from the inflation link about not being to eat ipads is critical. Increased resources are definitely nice, but the happiness derived from them is zero-sum, and at the end of the day they're taking more of my income.

This, coupled with the stagnation of median wages, means that:

We're not getting any happier as a cohort, and

The things we consume cost a bigger chunk of our earnings every year

I buy the link's argument that we should expect price inflation. Interestingly, this analysis is done with mostly pre-COVID data. COVID has amplified all these trends leading to price-inflation, and narrowed our demand into fewer goods and services. That further amplifies the inflationary forces that were already gearing up to make the 20's crazy.

Buckle up. There's going to be a lot of people who feel like their quality of life is crashing.
What is your opinion about Ethereum in this case?
The reason cyberattacks are proliferating is because many enterprises refuse to learn from the mistakes of others. They continue to connect ancient, unpatched Windows and Exchange servers to the public internet, they don't segment their networks, they don't secure TeamViewer and RDP, they don't use FIDO U2F, they don't have an IDS, they don't monitor logs, they don't execute email links and attachments in a sandbox, etc., etc., etc.
What could happen to Taiwan? I’m interested.
Which is a slightly better outcome. Had it gone through Verizon would've bought Sprint leaving us with a real duopoly.
> The problem is not about being hard working or not hard working. It is about the constraints around that hard work; or lack thereof. In late modern labor society the normativity is to achieve in itself, without any philosophical or ethical constraints that grounds achievement in real meaning. It is a pick-and-choose buffet of values and priorities, that is individually curated - rather than also being synchronized with others, the past and the future - and there is only one rule, that you have to achieve.

That is of course not true. Individually curated means synchronized with others as no individual exists in a vacuum; it feeds on others, on the environment, on history, and others feed on the individual, and the environment is modified by the individual, and history written by it. That it is free to evaluate its own future path is not the same as not being also part of something else, much less not take into account the something else.

Achievement in itself is, unparadoxically, and achievement. That you don't agree with it says more about your synchronicity with the rest of society than the opposite.
Often that kind of reporting data is delivered back via a “data diode” unidirectional network. That said, there is usually just a dmz between biz and prod to enable remote support of the controls system (ala the Purdue model), and not any real air gap.
Upvoted because it is a good question that never seems to get answered specifically. It’s always something vague and simple like “just invest in... uh... stuff, bro!”

Let’s say I have $1M liquid (I don’t) and I want to “build passive income”. What do I do? Specifically, what are the actual steps? As in, I pick up the phone and do what? Should I buy a laundromat? Great! HOW do I do this? Where is eBay For Laundromats? Once you but it you’ll need to hire someone to run it. How?

Buy a bunch of duplexes and be a landlord? OK... where is the step-by-step guide?

The answer of course is that it is not straightforward. It is complex and requires experience and not-widely-known niche know-how, and that’s why not everyone just does it.
I can't agree when the idea of owning a home near where they work is a pipedream for many.

People will say that you can move out of the cities in the same breath as telling you to get an education in order to get a higher paying white collar job at a big company, so which is it?

It seems no matter the configuration of life the numbers end up weighted in favour of rent-seeking capitalism and even the salaryman following all the society best practices is pinching pennies just to enjoy a coffee.

Even when I earned triple figures I couldn't afford to live in the suburbs. So why play the game at all if the grand prize is just scraping by?
Nice cute design! Does anybody know if this project includes a fluorescent detection, or you would need another device to observe the results?
I’m switching to Chime. The BBVA site and app feel like a big step backward.

For example, I like this auto save thing where they round up your purchases to the nearest dólar and deposit the money to a high interest savings account.
My school uses Canvas and I had no idea it was AGPLv3 free software. Really nice.
i have a similar experience - CUs sometimes outsource too much. In mine, they outsource Statements, Transfer/Bill pay, etc to different vendors/companies. It all works seamlessly with some fancy single-sign-on...except when it doesn't. I don't know who all have my financial details.
So if it flags you, then what? They still don't have evidence that you cheated.
...or because they're out there, and when they notice us they'll splat us like we'd splat an ant nest with no more thought than that.
Yes, that's how pairing works: two people, one keyboard, one workstation.

Having done this for a while, I wholeheartedly agree with everything the author says. It's great for software quality and productivity (among other things, it's much harder to slack on HN), but it's also incredibly draining and definitely not for everybody.
> I'm not super-knowledgable about cybersecurity, but shouldn't simply using TOR make it nearly impossible for the US government to track them down?

PSA: There are known traffic correlation attacks against Tor. It's not magic security dust you can sprinkle on a system. If you're doing thoughtcrimes, assume any G10 intelligence service can track you down. (If you're into extortion, human trafficking/exploiting children, or financing/advocating violence against civilians, then Tor is totally magic and is 100% guaranteed to make you invincible. Tor is all you need a-hole.)

Tor intentionally makes latency-privacy tradeoffs to make web browsing usable. I'm not familiar enough with Tor internals, but I believe applications have no control over these tradeoffs.

Anyone know if I2P allows applications to adjust latency/privacy tradeoffs? (Conceptually, you want your store-and-forward mixnet to use a priority queue for each hop, setting a deadline when each message arrives, and filling the pipe with expired messages first, and then non-expired messages in uniform random order. Applications more tolerant of latency get their traffic spread over a longer window. Per-hop latency targets should allow applications to avoid hop-to-hop correlations in latency targets.)
Adderall and/or alcohol seem to work well for me. But those aren't exactly costless either..
Consider cars on a freeway. There is no central control. Each car controls itself, cooperating with its neighbors. If one car goes berserk, it doesn't take down the whole freeway.

With a pipeline, if sections operated autonomously but cooperated with each other, and one goes berserk, its neighbors will shut down, but they won't be damaged. The repair work only has to repair the one section.
Why use an FFT at all? Yes it's easy but you'll almost always get a better result with a lot less computation by building an actual digital filter.
I am building one. We are in private beta. Details in my profile.
Sure, but actually committing the status every few minutes (seconds?) to a blockchain would use so much resources it's be... quite impolite.

It'd be easier, and cheaper eventually, to have it on a properly sharded database, maybe with a few different DNS and server front ends.
Please don't take HN threads into total flamewar hell. I realize that the USSR remains a difficult and polarizing topic in a lot of ways, but the GP commenter was posting in a human way and you responded with the internet equivalent of guns blazing. That's not cool. We're trying to have curious conversation here, not smite enemies.

I'm sure that you have excellent reasons for feeling the way that you do on this topic. Nevertheless it's not cool, on this site, to rush into ideological or political battle when strong feelings are activated. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

If you or anyone want more explanation, this set of past comments might be helpful for understanding what we're looking for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
problem were the lenders not borrowers
> More beautiful than the stars and galaxies they're blotting out?

At that moment, yes, absolutely. As I said, I understand the concerns and as with everything else, too much of it is going to be bad but during this moment I talked about it was absolutely wonderful.
It means to type basic programs found in a book or magazine. It meant learning a poke command to change your background color. Writing a for loop to print out a number.

At 6 maybe you type that huge program that creates a sprite ball that bounces across the screen. By 7 you are drawing out sprites on grid paper and making that bouncing ball different pictures.

It took me until later in highschool to understand things but typing and modifying is programming. My variables for loops were always lili,lolo,lala,lulu,p naming them there purpose seemed foreign.
The correspondences collection seems to be a very interesting read.

I've also enjoyed https://youtu.be/uRUfFeTmuc8 Henri Guillemin's 6 hours long presentation (French only, sorry). As someone who was only given a positive point of view growing up of Napoléon, I really appreciated the other side of the story.
Thunderf00t is pretty much a hack and about the least reliable source for anything.
That would be a fireable offense. Even criminal.
(2012)

7 years ago, 3 pts, no comments. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7010730)

9 years ago, 3 pts, no comments. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4057897)

Nothing super insightful really in this article, usual creativity, problem solving allure etc.. Most comments here just self-analysis, anecdotal.

This year present time, 67 pts, 19 comments. Meh, why?
Yes, but this is not new. Cryptocurrency is.

Also blaming the victim can only go so far
Because it's to allay fears. Our systems foundation is on trust and without it would be catastrophic. It's why if you look around prices everywhere are rising but the FED says only a small amount of inflation is predicted. It's a noble lie to avoid the panic and anger if the public knew serious inflation was coming. It's a self-fulfilling feedback loop once the public knows.

Same type of lie from Fauci at the beginning about the mask. Fear instead of trust leads to bad things. He did apologize for the lie to 60 minutes saying it was necessary because healthcare professionals need them. Talk about a death panel of one.
You forgot the other half of taxes: the spending part. So to be complete: governments collect and spend taxes.

When contractors demand to get paid in crypto, or offer a discount, governments will move towards crypto just like any other party in the system.
Let's just count the number of movies where we kill the aliens versus where we get to live with them.
Do you have money? Quit your job, go travel, go entrepreneurial pursuing something that moves you.

Living in some San Francisco apartment, building a career at tech companies making 6 figures a year is, once you have some money, a pretty crappy wheel-spinning way to live life, by some opinions.
Yes, that is the least scary. If species like us are stuck in our own solar system, we're eventually doomed. If we're not, it would only take a few million years to colonize the galaxy. If two non-stuck colonizing species exist at the same time they have to arise within a few million years of each other, in a galaxy thirteen billion years old.

Frankly, us being the only/first sapient species is by far the most optimistic possibility.
Nothing's stopping you from generating HTML with plain old strings. If you like Python, Bottle [1] is a great example of how simple it can be. This isn't actually what I use these days (I'm a victim of the fancy client-side JS libraries) but it's much easier to get running from zero than any other setup.

[1] http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html#tutorial-template...