skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those 5 boroughs are pretty unusual compared to a majority of the USA. There are about 5,000 towns in the USA with more than 5,000 people and Wal-Mart has about 5,000 stores with $340 billion in grocery sales. Kroger and Costco both have over $100 billion in annual revenue with over 3,000 stores between them. Wal-Mart has over 40% of grocery stores in the country and these 3 stores together have over 70%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/197621/annual-grocery-st...

https://www.foodindustry.com/articles/a-list-of-the-top-ten-...
China just fined Alibaba $3 billion for breaking anti-monopoly laws[1]. China also issued new anti-monopoly rules targeting its tech companies[2] in February.

Besides, everyone in the US benefits from increased competition between our domestic companies.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/04/10/986112628/china-fines-alibaba...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-internet-anti-monop...
Huh I’ve only watched like 10 of his vids but he hasn’t mentioned it once, he just smashes with a Chinese cleaver and minces in all the ones I’ve seen.

What’s the benefit to dirtying both a spoon and a knife to mince garlic?
Not sure what you mean. The network lets you compose services. It has for decades been possible to do that.

Containers as a form of static linking means that you ship one thing to prod and it has everything you need locally in it and it can’t be changed without you releasing a new one thing. If someone else upgrades MySQL client version on the host, your code keeps using the version you tested with, like a static binary or like a Python venv with pinned versions or vendored dependencies. It is a lot simpler to manage dependencies this way; downside is if you one of your dependencies has a security advisory, it can’t be updated by rolling out a new version by someone else. You have to update it, so unowned code becomes more expensive in that scenario.
this is interesting. So you have a weakest link kind of problem here.
They're winning until they're 45 and their enabling family members finally pass on leaving them nothing as they've extracted all their wealth over the decades enabling such a lifestyle. Then suddenly find themselves with nothing and no skills other than being in the top 500 of Call of Duty 25.
I wish this to be sarcasm. Absolutely grade A if it is.
Hallowed is a very apt translation, the hebrew word קדוש (which I think is the one that means hallowed?) can also be translated as "sperated"; "separated/holy" is pretty much the dictionary definition of hallowed
You've managed to identify a few of the consequential problems from collective, societal child rearing, and deduced that these problems are the result of a dominant female influence from the years of 0-15. Sexism aside, that is a gross and lazy thought process. I'm curious how else you came to those conclusions?
Curious which country this is. That ratio sounds really high.
Are you kidding??

I've had numerous conversations about this with my son, starting when he told me he didn't want to grow up to be a "man". Because of what he had absorbed from culture/society.

Today, men are told that we are disposable; Neanderthals; a legacy of the last century and the cause of everything that's wrong in the country/world; that we're patriarchal oppressors; that we're unnecessary and obsolete. The word "masculine" is at best a negative connotation, and usually meant as an attack.

So, yeah, I have first-hand experience with this. On the flip side, from talking with a couple of my son's female friends, they feel the pressure of being told that they can do and be everything. All at the same time. That's not great either.

The best response is to disengage from media and just be yourself. Easier said than done sometimes, for sure, but that's the longterm win.
A college degree is not at all mandatory (or always sufficient) to be educated. However, people, regardless of gender, that aren't educated just don't tend be that interesting. Do you really want to spend your life with someone your found uninteresting?

I personally think that the more educated people a society has, the more interesting people there are to meet.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

- Animal Farm.
I’m just an undereducated, naive American who built a CRUD app but I’ve never heard Europe described as valuing individual empowerment.
I really hope this is just sarcasm :)
Productivity grown in the service sector (2/3 of the economy) has been just 0.9% annually since 1947: https://aneconomicsense.org/tag/productivity/. It’s pretty much stopped growing over the last couple of decades.
“Curious what appearing on the TODAY show does for your startup?”
Ask HN: How to expose a coworker that is outsourcing his work?
We have a recent remote hire that seems to be outsourcing his work. We'd like to either prove or disprove this.

We believe he's given others control of his Github and other account logins. It does seem like he's taking precautions with a VPN.

How would you go about exposing this? Ideally in a brilliant and clever way.
Student athletes at these schools are generally smart. No reason to think there aren't enough athletic smart people to fill up a relatively small number of spots.
I had a period of time where I was pretty hooked, to the detriment of my studies. I don't think I was coping or escaping; at nineteen they were very intricate yet offered a clear progression to mastery. As a young adult, you haven't had the chance to develop mastery yet (which everyone hungers for) and nobody has given you the keys to something really complex before.

Biggest reason I moved on, I think, was quite simply that my horizons rapidly broadened. So, before passing judgement, I'd want to see what became of these young men in a few years time first.
Cut them out and allow yourself to be bored.

Boredom is intolerable.

Humans inevitably become more creative and/or social to escape boredom. See what you're drawn to when you cut out media consumption. You can always go back to reddit after a few months if you've just been bored the entire time.
Just to add to your point, in 1940, Harvard (and most other universities) had its own exam and its own application. The person who was going to spend the time to try for Harvard was a boy (and only boys) who had finished high school (an accomplishment achieved by less than half of all students back then), had book smarts (a common quality today but not in the past), and some form of "noteworthiness" (whether that was in family prestige or science fair awards). As you can see, all these things put together make for a very low denominator with which Harvard could have easily achieved an 80%+ acceptance rate. These factors were already self-selecting for the "Harvard Man." Now they aren't. You are correct in your point that the ladder has become more visible. That visibility has bred more competition and more metrics to suss out who should have a seat at the College.
Repeating yourself until you're red in the face that they shouldn't reopen this park for a 3rd or 4th time until your team gets unit testing sorted out but the PMs just aren't having it and the deadline isn't going to budge
Actually statistical studies usually don’t find racial discrepancies in the lethal use of force even when they don’t use control variables. However the differences exist in non-lethal use of force even when you account for various control variables (time of the day, location, income of the civilian, etc.)
The fact that listings can be changed more than a certain amount, without some sort of review and cost associated with that, is a huge gift from Amazon to fraudsters. It's the platform being designed to enable fraud.

Not a week goes by without our collective nose being shoved in the pile of poo that is Amazon's fraud platform wearing a cheap façade of ecommerce. And we still have trouble admitting it.

When a platform is designed for making money above all else, while willfully ignorant of humanity's millennia-long history of using fraud in pursuit of money unless that option is ruled out, and takes no steps to rule it out, it is equivalent to being purpose-built for it.
What Did Covid Do to Friendship?
The potato chip Spanish tortilla is supposedly a Ferran Adria thing.
The problem is they almost never actually honor these requests. I know several victims of stalking (including myself) who have had no luck with these forms, even when we've met the narrow and extreme criteria required including doxxing, death threats, etc. And if the forms don't work, there is no option B: courts will reject any challenges to remove content due to section 230, and if they won't take it down, then Google won't either and you're just stuck dealing with it indefinitely. It's been a special kind of hell that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. It impacts your reputation, your career, your friends, etc. It makes you suspicious of everyone because you don't know when it's just another stalker digging for more dirt. Section 230 really needs a carve-out for cyberstalking and extortion.
Moving discourse to social media and click bait has destroyed so much nuance in all discussions. Everything is black and white now, every issue is just a war between 2 sides and you're either "with us or against us".
>On the other hand, people here don't tend to go bankrupt and lose their house, healthcare (ironically) and life (from a social aspect) in general when they don't have a perfect health

Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills <https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0...>. A tipoff that [insert large percentage here] of bankruptcies aren't actually because of medical costs is that only 6% of bankruptcies by those without health insurance are because of that cause. The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income, which health insurance doesn't affect.
MySQL has had a myriad of easy-to-use solutions for over a decade that offer point-in-time cloning:

- Percona xtrabackup

- Linux LVM snapshots

- master-slave replication

- then built-in replication for point-in-time catchup.

I do some work with pg, but it seems clunky compared to MySQL for typical HA and failover scenarios, but it can be done. All the MySQL methods I mentioned above can and have been scripted. With MySQL GTIDs, it's usually trivial.

MySQL 8 and Percona Cluster are easy-to-use multi-master topologies. (I only use them with less than 100 GB of data in case of state transfers.)

Source: MySQL DBA.
In the shale boom of the mid 2000's, Halliburton hired a lot of women engineers right out of college. My understanding (from male colleagues) was that if they had the minimum requirements and had no red flags, then they were rubber stamped.

The result was that they were all tough as nails and ran a rig as well as any man. There was literally no difference between them and their male counterparts. As others have observed, capability is uniformly distributed, opportunity is not.
>Finally, there’s the whole business of resource isolation. While cgroups are pretty neat as an isolation mechanism, they’re not hardware-level guarantees against noisy neighbors. Because cgroups were a later addition to the kernel, it’s not always possible to ensure they’re taken into account when making system-wide resource management decisions.

I don't think virtualization really offers hardware-level guarantees against noisy neighbours either.
> The company I work for now pays substantially more than Google/Facebook/et. al and most people on my team are from random state schools

That's...interesting, because it's certainly not the way the LinkedIn pages of most folks at Hudson River Trading, 2Sigma, Stripe or Citadel would imply (I did get into Citadel, but for a 2nd tier role). Of course, it would make sense for Netflix, which has a more Amazon-like hiring strategy.

> I've found that a growth mindset is important to ensuring you keep succeeding because there's nobody you can just copy once you've made it this far. Failures shouldn't be depressing but motivating instead.

I've had a lot of people say that, but after being beaten down and called stupid for 25 years it has worn on me.
There must be lots of ole-school fixed-width machines, which have stack machine built-in. Especially if you decide that top-of-stack means contents of the accumulator(s). To make it a "forth", you need separate string space, where machine words are linked to symbols. 1+ for example is just INC.
Copyrights, patents, and legally-enforceable trade secrets are government-granted monopolies on particular inventions and works of authorship. Granting such monopolies may be good public policy in many cases, though it is never without its deadweight costs. However, it always carries the risk that the grantee will overexploit their monopoly, to the detriment of the public. In this case, there are at least two possible public policy options:

1. Reduce or eliminate the monopolies.

2. Continue to grant such monopolies, while attempting to limit their overexploitation through other means, such as prohibiting the forms of abuse that were most egregious three or four years ago.

Unaccountably, Congress seems to have chosen option #2. I doubt it will be effective.
I agree- as pestilent as mosquitoes are to humans, there's no denying that they represent significant insect biomass, to be consumed by multiple other species - honestly, with everything else happening to the climate, birds and bats are going to have a hard enough time as it is. That's the real beauty of this approach- introducing wolbachia doesn't seem to have any effect on mosquito population, but rather on the population of dengue-carrying mosquitoes.

The dengue virus is not nearly as important to local ecology, as far as I am aware. Theres such an extreme litany of viruses, most of which have no measurable impact on human existence, that the reduction or even elimination of one species (if that's the right term- pendants I apologise) should be without negative consequence.
As usual the article is almost exclusively concerned with market capitalization as an indicator of economic success. Countries like Germany are dominated by small and middle-class, family owned business. 'Big corporate' is indeed more successful in the US or China but it's just one model to manage an economy and I don't think it's that great. One of the most important points is also buried at the end of the article

>"These internal barriers mean Europe has many smaller firms operating at national, not continental, scale. Each country tends to have its own banks, utilities, airlines and supermarkets. (Europe has over 100 mobile operators, compared with a handful in America or China.) These lack the economies of scale and opportunities to grow quickly enjoyed by firms plying the American or Chinese markets."

Europe has no homogeneous consumer market for tech giants like the US or China which can propel tech firms to gigantic size. And honestly I consider this a feature instead of a bug. It seems like profits aside the major other thing they seem to promote is damaging competition, democracy and pushing surveillance. If it was up to me Europe should use the decline of business giants to double down on the idea of the 'Europe of regions'. Small, diverse and robust business that does well on international markets, pays attention to its stakeholders rather than just shareholders, and does not just pursue growth blindly.
What is type 2 fun?
I've considered this, however:
-it's a contractual violation
-the work is shoddy
-it's immoral
-this presents security issues
-it would make a good hacker news story
It's a little eccentric, but it's not all that different from geocaching. Plus, free food!

I've also dumpster dived a little bit (decent amount of crossover between foragers and dumpster divers), grocery stores toss out tons of food that's still perfectly good.
The fact that she was at Caltech (and then MIT) alone is an indication that she is objectively superior to people like me though, and I have little hope of achieving even a fraction of that sort of success. I can't even get an interview at companies like Stripe because of my school, for instance.
> Well that has a prior on life even existing in the first place

True, the question of intelligent life evolving can be construed as either:

"Given that life exists, what is the probability of intelligence evolving?"

Or:

"Given that the universe exists, what is the probability of life arising and evolving intelligence?"

Both are actually interesting and important questions (cf. the Drake Equation and Fermi Paradox), but I am pretty comfortable asserting that in the context of this conversation the former interpretation is more apropos.
Do you think using one of the newer action style cameras that does horizon leveling would help?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity
> good mentorship in preparing my applications

I don't get this. Why does one need mentorship in filling out an application. I got mine in the mail, filled them out, and sent them in. It never occurred to me I needed someone to guide me.

My dad (MIT) did tell me many years earlier what was necessary to get into MIT: 1. straight A's 2. high SAT scores 3. an achievement in extracurricular activities

(MIT rejected me.)

It's like the Boy Scouts. I talked with an Eagle dad a couple years ago, who talked about shepherding his boy through the Eagle program to get the badge. He was very proud of his son. I mentioned that I was an Eagle, too. He asked me how it was with my dad helping me. I said he never did a thing, and it didn't occur to me to ask. I just decided I wanted one, got the list of requirements, and did them one by one. None of them were hard, it just required time and persistence.

He looked at me like I was an alien.
"sorry, I know you've spent the last 10 years living with your aging mother in her home, but now that she's passed away you'll have to sell it to pay the 40% in its value in estate taxes" -- not so attractive. :)
I am sorry you had such an experience. Startup life has pros and cons, and situationally varied. I've worked on several startup ventures of my own and nothing in the world is more satisfying than "skin in the game". It feels real and impactful. I didn't work more than 8-10 hours a day. People using your products and gratification of the fact that you/your-team built is so much more real to me. Friendships I've formed in these years are the strongest bonds of my life and have kept me mentally in better state than otherwise toiling in a FAANG job.

> The average multi-million $ enterprise company creates CRUD apps and sell them like they are saving humanity. It is just sales all the way down.

Perhaps, I suggest working on something else other than CRUD apps? That sounds horrible. Startups can vary from Space industry to biotech, from defense to green tech.

> I am happy, happier than I even have been. I focus on what matters to me - empowering people, open source software, and building a sustainable business. I am never doing the crazy startup life again. Period.

Not all startup lives are like this. I guess we have a different definition of startup life. Startups are empowering people, building open source software and building sustainable businesses. Overall, there is a huge spectrum of startups you can work on - from shitty CRUD apps to Boston Dynamics.
I don’t think it’s a magic wand. I think it’s a lot like any place and you get what you put into it. But diminishing returns (academically) start at a higher level than other locations.

The network is nice, and people will never wonder if you’re smart or not, but yeah - people don’t pay you because you went to one of these schools.

It can also limit choices and career paths. And have some people may have chips on their shoulders because they didn’t get in to that school.
I think the ideas here apply equally well to anything else where you improve exponentially! But you're right that that's the pretext assumed here, because that's the context in which I've been thinking about this (career advice).
"We use rather political process and respect individual freedoms even if those are unscientific (religion, refusing transfusion, refusing vaccines, etc.)"

You're welcome to die in ignorance if you want. But the rest of society is free to ostracize you. Businesses can deny you access. Schools can deny your kids entry. And through the political process, can restrict your interactions in other ways.

Your "freedom" stops when you run up against *my freedom" to have a diseased lunatic close enough to spread their disease to me.
He is saying his "luck" skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.
>The third, and most striking, reason Europe has fallen behind is the lack of newly created firms in its blue-chip indices. Many of the biggest companies in America, such as Amazon, Netflix, Tesla or Facebook, are young enough to be run by their founders. In Europe old names prevail.

Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, "We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies". I feel the same way about FAANG and SpaceX/Tesla and Silicon Valley as a whole (and Wall Street, and Hollywood, and the Ivy League), that they are in the United States.

That doesn't mean I approve of everything they do. That doesn't mean I can't or won't decry their putting thumbs on scales toward a certain type of bien-pensant ideology. That does mean that, overall, I am very, very glad that they are American instead of Russian, Chinese, or even British, French, or German.
sounds like it's a simple software token. Hackers needed an account for this, which they got by paying 10$ for stolen cookies lol. So now they can log into some random employees account, then get an admin issued 2FA code. Never seen these "bypass" codes before, but that's my best guess.
The business listing side of Facebook should be broken off as a separate business.
that last part invalidates all the previous parts.
One alternative is that they just become jaded by their failures by the time they're in their 30s. At that point it would be fairly trivial for them to give up on all of it.
"If he ever gets busted he'll sing like a bird"

Really, amazing bird song at this link in case you missed it:

https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-nature-singer-...

The Dr Seuss (Geisel) building is a monstrosity as the author claims because it's totally unsuited to earthquake country
You're listing car and dog like it's some kind of requirement. I couldn't be less happy to live in a society that has less dogs and less cars.
Why haven't we seen this play out in programming teams?
Couple things to consider:

The "not your Daddy's ditch weed" line is basically fake. Cannabis users take enough to get where they want to be and stop, more potent weed just means they smoke less. It's also a partial agonist, so past a point smoking extra is just wasting drugs.

Second point is that cannabis use isn't increasing, if anything it's decreasing: 20-somethings reported higher rates of use in the 90s than they do now.

So really the impact is less people getting entwined with the legal system.

I won't bother engaging with the rest of your ramble, just the egregiously wrong part.
Fun fact, it hasn’t, outside of a handful of sectors: https://aneconomicsense.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/real-val...
The NYTimes has a good rent-vs-buy calculator that can help you figure out the cost (not cash flow) of owning vs renting.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

You have completely neglected:

- maintenance (1%/yr)
- property taxes (1-2%/yr)
- utilities included in rent
- opportunity cost (8% return on alternativee investments)
- transaction costs (4% to buy, 6% to sell)
- rent growth (=home price growth IMO)
- inflation (should =rent and home price growth IMO)
- mortgage interest deduction

Etc etc. The NYTimes calculator includes all of these. That said $3k/mo for a $450k home is heavily in favor of renting. The approximate cost to own the home is only ~$1500/mo.

In SF a property that costs $3k/mo to rent might cost closer to $800k. That comes out to about the same cost either way, according to the assumptions I stated above.