skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know how profitable gmail is for alphabet? Is this reported publicly? It’s hard to get away from your gmail account When so many other services tie you to an email address, but I would recommend using a app other than gmail on your phone to minimize the data you’re giving to google. Despite having a gmail, I don’t have any google apps on my phone.
Right to repair should come in to fix this. My off the top of the head thoughts would be

* For a device like washing machine, parts should be supplied for a time of about 10 years.

* Every part should be available to purchase either on its own or as part of a replacement kit like a PCB.

* The sum of the cost of all replacement parts shouldn't be above x% of the initial item price.

* If an OEM physically can not get you a replacement part (Chip discontinued, etc) and your product breaks, the OEM pays you for the remaining expected lifetime. (If it was 5 years old they pay you 50% of the initial cost)

So in theory you should be able to build an entirely new product from parts and it would only cost you x% more than a pre built one which stops OEMs setting insane prices on replacements. The end result would likely be that OEMs would have to slim down on their product variations and sell the same designs for longer rather than releasing a new model of printer every year since this would make it much easier to stock parts. Some companies already do this, I have noticed Brevile has sold the same kettle and coffee machine models for almost 10 years now.
Do you have a source for that quote? I would love to know! Thank you.
> Normally, an increase in money supply would cause consumer goods to increase in price, since more people are able to buy them

This isn't actually true, though it's a widespread belief (quite a number of pundits kept making incorrect predictions after the global financial crisis).

Where the logic goes wrong is that an increase in money supply doesn't automatically translate into higher disposable incomes. (And higher disposable incomes don't automatically translate to higher effective demand, though in practice they usually do if you the increase in income isn't extremely unequally distributed.)
What methods have you tried to emulate extraversion? A friend of mine used improv and acting to help them "act" more extroverted, YMMV. Me, I'm still emulating too.
"New technology and inadequate response from governments is what has created this bonanza for a new kind of criminal. "

Just what government response would be appropriate here. From where I sit, government already meddles way too much in this area.

"Oh, sure, he was killed, but he was walking down the wrong street at the wrong time of day."

It is an odd comparison, but also very apt. You are at fault for walking South Side Chicago, while waving wads of hundred dollar bills looking like a mark. Just because it is illegal to take from you, does not mean it is not stupid to flaunt your idiocy around.
Is it that the 56th hour you don't do anything, or that the 56th hour makes the other hours 1/55th less productive, therefore making it seem like you are getting something with the extra hour?
I don’t think the quote was talking about post-accident Chernobyl though.
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Health care, housing, and education costs are through the roof and wages are flat, even if your job hasn't been shipped to China yet, but it would be ungrateful to complain because now we have cheap iPhones!
Once you work over 55 hours per week, your productivity at that point effectively becomes zero [1]. You effectively cannot accomplish anything more, productively, as a human, past 55 hours of work per week.

This is just false but I suppose it’s all a matter of what you call “work”. For some people, going to client dinners and golf outings is “work”. I agree coding for 55+ a week is difficult but there are plenty of folks that have this ability to sit down and grind.

The idea that some economist at Stanford discovered a secret 55 hour breaking point for productivity that generalizes to every human on earth is beyond preposterous.

I suspect like many economist papers this does not replicate and is simply a means for generating headlines to help this person get tenure or funding for their work.
I'm always curious what actually happened on the backend here. Has anyone here had a similar situation happen on their watch? Postmortem analysis would be interesting.
Doesn't this prove the point that cars are growing? The modern "compact" corolla is the same size as the "midsized" from 15-20 years ago.
Not the actor nor the inventor, not mainstream.
In that case, the same would apply, except you would want to get citizenship in any European Union country. I would go with France. France permits dual citizenship and if you obtain a 2 year masters degree in France (and stay there for the 2 years during the masters degree) and then live there for 2 more years working in France, you can get French citizenship, which confers you EU citizenship.

The only situations where trying to obtain Irish citizenship would be advantageous is if you wanted to live in the United Kingdom (Irish citizens have the right to live/work/retire in the UK) or if you have formal qualifications (bachelors/masters degree) in a STEM field. If you have formal qualifications in a tech field with educational degrees, you can often get hired in Ireland much easier than other EU countries due to the Irish Skills Waiver, and you would not need sponsorship.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. Of all the things we don't need, definitional disputes about molestation are really up there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My concern with this approach is that it gives the impression that you can use all the same switches that are available to the real shell commands, which isn't the case. For example, taking the first command documented on the README, cat, shelljs supports the -n switch only, but `man cat` shows about 10 switches for me. So although I agree that the learning curve is lower to get started, you do have to remember that the switches are limited and be sure to check the docs to see which of your shell command switches are supported.
Typescript works perfectly well without classes, even better sometimes (see decorators and Typescript).

The shape of data is more foundational than classes. An object without a class is a perfectly good way to organize data too, based on its shape.
This is a tragic market failure. As climate change is making more of the Earth's surface hospitable to ticks, I hope this gets revisited at some point in the future.
When I was young my parents bought real estate to rent out for cash flow. One pair of renters just left without notice and did a lot of damage on the way out. They sold the property shortly after that.
Americans for the most part don't pronounce the aitch in herbivore or herbaceous. I've never heard an American say "an hotel", and the only Americans who say "an historic" are pretentious twits.
This is a weird comment. One of the key features of the SuperH ISA is that it's more or less backwards compatible. I worked on them in the 00s/10s, but I can't imagine they had an entirely different ISA in the 90s. I also know that commercial SH3 emulators exist because I've used them. Heck, Renesas used to ship one with the toolchain.
I also tried to log into an old gmail account. After I successfully verified my identity, gmail's final screen asked for a new phone number. My account never had a phone number; it wanted a new one. It wouldn't let me access my emails if I didn't acquire a phone and give them its number. I was glad that I didn't care about the emails in that account, or I would have no choice but to accept.

It really opened my eyes that google was willing to hold my emails hostage. Google's roadblock was unrelated to security, because an attacker could provide a new phone number too.
Isn't this just caused by you leaving your 20's behind? At least for me I feel like I passed by my best years, and am only realizing it now.

By 60 I certainly hope to have accepted that, but right now it's still a bit hard.
Lawyers make the same hourly rate for the 40th or 80th hour.
Wikipedia articles related to politics should have warning labels about bias and potential disinformation when linked from google/twitter/facebook. Entrenched activist admins and editors sabotage its ability to self-correct entries towards a neutral point of view.
Does no one else see the humor in that?
author here:

I tried port forwarding (because I never did in the past) and couldn't figure how to do it. capture here https://viggy28.dev/article/pain-of-setting-up-port-forwardi...

I guess Alex's inlets (https://github.com/inlets) might do it too. I would love to hear other alternatives.
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Its going to be interesting to see where this all goes. My whole life DMT has been this drug that pretty much had a legendary status, dealers didn't sell it, I didn't know anyone that did it. People were scared to even try. Everyone's heard crazy stories of it. But now, its available in 510 carts you can just put on any battery. It's no big deal anymore. Wonder what effect this will have when people are just chilling on dmt carts.

I'm overall optimistic for a world with accessible psychedelics, mdma and others though. Like imagine a world where there are alternatives to just drinking with your friends. That's all we do, drink beer, drink wine, make cocktails, go to bars to socialize. Drunk people have so many negative externalizes. They're noisy, rude, sloppy. Maybe the campsite next to you is full of people using mushrooms instead of drinking beers, leaving cans all over and yelling all night. Never mind even some of the positive mindsets these substances can give someone.

I'm skeptical of some of these investments though. I think once they're legal for recreational use (I kind of believe that's what most really want, medical uses are a way to normalize use and get there) interest will drop off quick and people will just self medicate or whatever or they won't be these mystical taboo things.
I like how they are charging 10% more if you pay with Bitcoin than with Monero.

I think commerce would greatly improve if other networks had Tor clients, especially because of the stablecoin and private stablecoin availability as of this year. All EVMs as well as Tendermint networks have no out of the box solutions for Tor nodes and connectivity. But they both have ways for ERC20 tokens to have a great degree of privacy. One Tendermint network called Secret Network has private smart contract execution, and a variety of bridges. So as all tokens are smart contracts the metadata and variables would not be visible onchain.

sDAI would be more useful for commerce if the nodes and wallets could easily resolve over Tor.

Is anybody working on that?
> I feel like the easiest way to accomplish this is just investing into stable dividend stocks.

Yes, you're generally better off with equities. Though going for total return is better. It's not that dividends are bad (they're an important part of returns), but (a) you're limiting your diversification options by only focusing on dividend-paying companies, and (b) there's little correlation between dividend-paying companies and companies that give you good financial results.

> Dividend investors will tell you that theory does not extend to reality, and that dividend stocks do indeed do better than the market. I am not denying that dividend growth stocks have beat the market on average. But the dividends are not the reason why. Dividend stocks, particularly dividend growth stocks, have excess exposure to the value, profitability, and investment factors. That is what explains performance differences, which means the outperformance still doesn’t justify trying to pick individual stocks.

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/the-irrelevance-of-dividends-stil...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fama–French_three-factor_model
Yes but the increased metabolic effect is mostly just during the activity. Resting metabolic rate doesn't change much. I am speculating that the extra oxidation would damage cells.
On the about page they write "By allowing general architectures, Objective-S is the first general purpose programming language.

What we currently call general purpose languages are actually domain specific languages for the domain of algorithms."

So they are actually making a very bold claim.
Something doesn't quite add up. I feel like we don't have the full story:

>After seizing the data, the hackers locked the data on some computers and servers, demanding a ransom on Friday. If it is not paid, they are threatening to leak it onto the internet.

So... that constitutes a state of emergency? What data would they have that would be so sensitive? More likely they have hooks deep into the operation of the pipeline and may be threatening to shut it down/destroy it if not paid. Or, rather, they may be having trouble restoring operations without paying the ransom.

Side note/speculation: Will the feds make a move against crypto?
I wonder how much it costs. I didn't see pricing info on the website.

EDIT: I wonder how much the managed version costs.
Crypto has provided an alternative to gold. The same printed dollars that would normally go to gold is flowing into crypto. The new generation of gold miners are not mining gold.

That's why gold hasn't risen dramatically. Crypto is absorbing the inflation.
To each their own. I've found Malazan to be quite a slog. Enjoyable in parts, but too many characters, too broad in scope for me. I'm on the final book now, and am going to finish it, but I'll feel more relief than anything when I'm done! The Assassin's Apprentice series, being from the first person perspective is in many ways its polar opposite. Each style has its advantages, but I've found I prefer stories where I can really get to know a few characters, rather than necessarily needing a truly massive, sprawling world. (Kingkiller Chronicle is probably my favourite; hope I get to read the rest of it eventually.)

I notice a similar trend in my enjoyment of RPGs, preferring something with a fairly linear storyline to more open world games.
Those projections are based on Modern Monetary Theory and Keynesian modeling....

Sorry to say I so not support either one of those economic schools of thought... Time will tell who is right

To believe we can just create from thin air 6+ trillion dollars in 18 mo's and plan to create 4-6 trillion more it will not result in massive inflationary pressures is a folly.

You might be right in the debt disappears, because people will be buying bread with figurative wheel barrow's of money as the dollar collapses...

grated that is the worst case, but these rosy predictions that everything will just continue on with no more than 3% inflation is lunacy at the highest order. We are seeing massive inflation in many market segments all being labeled as "shortages" for other reasons than currency problems. 400% in lumber,300% in food, etc. I submit it is not only shortages driving those numbers
You can see the ultimate expression of Calvinism/Protestantism in Bitcoin too, where authority over what counts as money is granted to machines that can prove that they have done ‘work’. This proof is not judged by a human, but rather by the laws of mathematics and physics - I.e. the creations of God, thus Bitcoin is a money whose purity is sanctified by an offering of work done for its own sake.
Pork not just from SLS, but also Boeing Commercial Crew which was supposed to be certified in 2017 and it's looking like next summer at the earliest.

Yes we need a second, competing system but Boeing may have lost the last of its engineering expertise.
you should point to a specific part of your link to the 55 hours. searching for 55 doesn't get a productivity graph, and figure 10 has some interesting notes below it.

I think you need to be a lot more specific citing 'evidence'.
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Agreed. It also tells us where bug bounty rewards should be in value. As the structure of bug bounty programs are completely wrong and the rewards are undervalued.

The market is literally saying they are undervalued.

The flogging will continue until bug bounties improve.
If you’re working on windows, powershell is absolutely worth your time.
It’s also a great tip to work on your body language that says “I’m very busy with important things” even if you totally aren’t. For example, when you go to the break room or to sit on the toilet or to have a smoke break make sure you move very fast and purposefully from your desk so people think you’re just running back and forth to talk to people.
I think it's easy to buy in the idea of "hard work pays off", because believing in "luck" instead for a measure of success isn't as satisfying. We like to think our effort pays off, that we've got agency, and that those who made it better than us must have done so because they worked harder and so deserve it, and can be an inspiration and model for us to do the same one day. As opposed to thinking they just lucked out more.
>Stars and galaxies are. They are as they always[0] were, and always will be

>[0] - On human-relevant timescales.

This was once orthodoxy, but it was overturned ~450 years ago, at least from a Eurocentric perspective.

- If you look at millions of objects, then something that only happens to each one, once in X million years, will be happening to one of them right now. Like a nova.

- If you look at millions of objects, then you will see the one-in-a-million rare one which is doing something on a human timescale. Like a pulsar.
> You are living in approximately the safest time ever.

Aside from the steadily growing number of natural disasters happening every year.
Found some reading which seems to help explain the role of government in commodity prices.

https://www.nios.ac.in/media/documents/SecEcoCour/English/Ch...
Your circulatory system is actively pumped by the heart, but also passively pumped by everyday muscle movements. Lack of movement decreases oxygenation and clearance of metabolic byproducts.
> > • Education, defined as the average cost of tuition, fees, and room and board at a four-year public college.

> What is education being overweight by a factor of several times? The other items are the annual cost of expenses that you incur every year. But education is only incurred 4 years out of the 80 years you're alive. Giving them the same weight as the other items is ridiculously misleading.

That is strange. Education is also an oddly priced expenditure because the nameplate tuition is not the price paid by most students. It would be a lot better to use the the net price, which is much lower, but is harder to collect.
I'm guessing the answer to your question is "yes" but I don't know how much insight this gives to GP's question.
Ah yes it does and that was my point and I misread OP.
I wish I could believe this. Seems more like wishful thinking along the lines of America’s hubris that it could “bring democracy” to the Middle East.

There’s nothing magic about soil. You need to give time for waves of immigrants to integrate, or it leads to backlash and horrible people like Trump getting elected.
Colonial Pipeline precisely does keep it's control network disconnected from the internet - the only thing that was ransomwared is their corporate network. They shut the pipelines down voluntarily to prevent further spread.
I think I understand your proposal here; the idea is to discourage consumption at the megacorp level, and increase consumption at the small business level?

A couple of thoughts here. Firstly, revenue is a bad way to measure this. Low-margin businesses like groceries will have high revenue for fairly low actual profits. It will benefit companies that have high profit margins. Google has high profit margins and will be less impacted than a grocery company of equivalent size.

Secondly, this will discourage economies of scale. The prices of goods will likely rise, because megacorps pay more for raw materials and small businesses are fairly inefficient for the most part. It would be hard to run a small business making cars, for example. Not big enough to afford all the expensive automation.

Third, I would worry that all this causes is an expensive to audit shell game. You create lots of small companies that funnel their income to a parent company. The only thing the parent company does is hold IP, which they lease to the small companies for a rate that is almost exactly their profit margins. The parent company has no need for raw materials (as R&D can be done in a small subsidiary funded by 0% interest loans from the parent company), so the tiering does nothing. Or we have to prevent that somehow, which likely means lots of complicated audits on how businesses are structured.

As for prior examples, Communism was a fairly different attempt to level the playing field (at least ideologically). It went poorly, but for reasons that I don't think impact your idea.

I think you're coming in at the wrong angle. To me, large corporations make sense in a lot of fields. One example is how Amazon got big enough that they had organically needed many of the underpinnings that led to AWS. Their economy of scale makes it possible to sell those services for profit, but not be outrageously expensive relative to doing it yourself for many cases.

The problem is that the way we structure companies leads to an extremely unequal distribution of the company's returns. One proposed solution has been to cap the maximum pay of anyone at the company based on the pay of the lowest paid person. So if it was theoretically 10x, if the janitor makes $7.25/hr then the CEO can't make more than $72.50/hr. If the CEO wants to make more, they'll have to raise the janitors pay. Of course, that's not without faults either. If they contract for janitorial services, then the lowest paid person might be an engineer. You also have to watch for alternative transfers of wealth; i.e. if the CEO owns the janitorial services company that they use, overcharges for it, and the board allows it as a form of kickback.

I personally like that because it doesn't prevent the CEO from making money, it just requires them to lift up everyone else as well to do it.
> If someone knows where I can buy a website making $2400 a year for $3000 please let me know

I've seen websites like this advertised on flippa or what not. The problem is that they usually rely on "tricks" and there's a good chance that Google will knock the site down in their search rankings when the algorithm changes next time. The risk is that it will keep it's traffic long enough to break even on the investment. Any legitimate website making $2400 per year with a high chance of continuing with minimal maintenance is going to command a larger multiplier.
The court of federal claims still exists, odd one word messed up your google-fu
Don’t you love vaporware? It can do anything!

Real-life non-vaporware solar + battery combo installations are improving and spreading all the time.

By the time vaporware small nuclear materializes outside of demonstration projects (10 years? 20?) there’s no telling how efficient and ubiquitous solar + batteries will be.
The Toyota Corolla has grown 8 inches longer, 4 inches wider, and a full 500 pounds heavier from 2001 to 2021. It may be a small car by today's standards but it's as big as mid sized sedans used to be.

https://www.caranddriver.com/toyota/corolla/specs

https://www.autoblog.com/buy/2001-Toyota-Corolla-CE__4dr_Sed...
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong
Keep in mind that cash flow is (one) reason why we have a chip shortage. Companies wanted their cash working for them rather than tied up in stupid inventory. Unfortunately, cash tied up in additional inventory would have lessened the effects of the shortage. So now cash will be lost through lost revenues, expensive overnight shipping to desperate customers, and lots of stress for the people and machines in the supply chain.

There is always a risk no matter what the investment.