skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is certainly not patently false to suggest that there has been plenty of discussion and implementation of newer ideas, an enormous amount of focus on the dynamic of inflation...

Ok. I agree with all of that. And none of it contracts what I said, which was that modern economic knowledge did not "drive us away from gold backed dollars". What drove us off the gold standard was rash actions by a federal government backed into a corner.

> if it was necessary break a system to prevent the collapse of an insolvent dollar, it is probably best not to attempt to recreate that state of economic affairs

Well, that conclusion conflates the solution with the problem. For example, if you're in an airplane and you recklessly burn all your fuel because you were having fun going fast and have to eject and abandon your plane to crash, the solution is not "bring more fuel next time" nor "don't use planes anymore". The answer is don't be an idiot and reckelessly burn all your fuel.

> If we agree that the Great Depression and Long Depression were examples of significant economic crises in addition to periodic smaller financial panics and forced devaluation

I think I agree with that.

I just don't agree that either of those depressions were caused because gold-backed currency isn't sound. In fact, before the Long Depression, we used gold backed currency. What caused the Long Depression was stupidly removing silver from the monetary supply very suddenly. That was an enormous shock to the economy that happened without enough warning. It was a monetary cliff, and cliffs are bad. Engineering transitions like that to be smooth and slow is the way to avoid that.

And the Great Depression was caused because banks lent out too much money and since the Federal Reserve had driven out all the private clearing houses and refused to act as lender of last resort. Bank runs contracted the money supply by 33%. Not sure how much that is in comparison to the Long Depression, but its a lot regardless.
Spreadsheets + datalog has been a concept floating around for a while. You can find papers about NEXCEL, XcelLog, and probably some other attempts.

It’s a tricky problem.
Thats a generous term
90% of the problem is housing prices literally rent/buy both are out of reach of all. Why work if you job wont even cover full rent?
What is the overall cost of living associated with the respective salary. Amd of people proposing a free market, why is it a problem that suddenly the same job is paid more for in a more competitive job market?

As others pointed out, CoL is also way lower in most parts were there are relevant jobs to be had.

I am working a job that would pay at least double in SF. I can afford to pay the mortgage on a 130 square meter house with 500+ square meters of garden and relax by growing my own food as a hobby with 40 hours per week, 6 weeks of holiday, paid overtime, really good health care covered by insurance.

I live in one of the four largest cities in Germany. So I benefit from the infrastructure like theater,
Medical stuff and so on as well.

And also the ability to start a business on the side with filling out a single form.

And I am able to generate FU money from my main salary, go on trips, give to charity and such.

Reading about insane prices for living in SF or other tech regions puts a damper on the high salaries IMHO.

But I also define my life not by the amount on my pay check.
>What's telling is how similar the Asian admit percentage is between the top colleges except for Caltech. It wasn't always like this, but they've all (ex-Caltech) converged on almost the same number now.

To clarify for those who don't understand your point, Caltech is unique among elite universities for not using affirmative action in undergraduate admissions.
>Play the bassoon. ;-) A friend of mine who was a school music teacher told me that getting good at the bassoon was pretty much a ticket to a generous college scholarship.

Reminds me of Oxford and Cambridge's organ scholarships, which are also the only way to apply and be admitted to both universities for undergraduate study.
>Here is a different take from a newer paper.

This paper is by Himmelstein and Woolhandler, the same authors who wrote the earlier one that the authors the Post piece cites was responding to. As the Post piece says:

>So Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew J. Notowidigdo did what’s called an “event study.” Instead of looking at bankruptcies to see how many involved medical bills, they started with the illness, and asked how much more likely people were to declare bankruptcy after they got sick. That’s a much better way to tease out causation than asking whether someone who just went through a financially ruinous divorce also owed his or her dermatologist thousands of dollars.

In other words, it's not surprising that someone who declares bankruptcy owes medical bills among all the bills he is behind on. While "correlation is not causation" is used far too often by people who don't really understand its meaning, this is an example. Again, from the Post piece:

>That jibes with what we’ve seen in the bankruptcy data since Obamacare passed. If medical bills really were driving so many people into bankruptcy, then we would have expected filings to plummet after 2013, when millions of people gained health insurance coverage. Instead we see a smooth decline from the recession-era peak.
Edit: I’m not dignifying this junk with a real reply.

If you have any doubt, see a professional. Don’t trust this crap.
Honestly, on the balance, I don't think any of the examples you mentioned would do that much to my general happiness. I care about the other things in life so much more than about processor performance.

If Google Maps hadn't come someone else would do it. They didn't invent digital maps.

I don't think society in general would be very different. If we lost basic things like safety, food, and so on, then yes that matters. But if we're being honest, big tech in the big picture of our daily lives is really just candy.

The thing that is of much bigger import than all of those put together for most people is healthcare, housing, and eventually climate change.
Why do you need postgres, if you can get away with Redis? For all the 3 points mentioned in the article, I would rather just use redis as apposed to postgres. Unless, you really need a rds solution for the project.
Right to be forgotten is also a good way to make impopular people disappear. To cull the enemy talent pool. You just need a paper that justifies it.

Google probably just wants to prevent criticism of Google employees and get one step closer to preventing criticism of themselves.
I don't think they would abuse undocumented APIs or security bugs in the OS for critical functionality:

1. OS patches would break apps making app users unhappy.

2. Patched OS could warn users of exploit attempts, damaging app reputation.
This comment thread is one of the most interesting I've read in a long time.

My prior bias leans toward thinking WFH is not so bad for productivity, but I think you raise a really important point that I agree with:

Developers tend to focus on individual productivity at the expense of organisational productivity.

The latter is what actually matters, and that could very well necessitate slower individual pace, more checkins with other teams, project leads changing their mind more frequently, and so on.
I don’t even assume that what I do is right.
I founded one company in Germany. We sold it to a big holding company. We developed network devices. We had a branch in US. If you are German and used to our bureaucracy, it was business as usual. It was quite ok to have 30 days holidays and see the office mostly empty in Summer. We used to have 10-20% of our engineering team as students, writing their degree thesis in our office, which used to bring a lot of innovation. We had some support from the State, when hiring people that were unemployed, where the State paid 50% of their salaries and we paid the rest. It was good specially to re-educate people without any job perspective. They got some basic training in facility management, QA and basic IT. Salaries are lower than in US, but people - specially in the software development branch, are kind of minimalistic, which is pretty different of our American colleagues, which almost all of them wanted expensive cars and their own House. Our devices used to compete with US and Chinese companies. We had our niche and our solution was considered more stable (but with less features) than the others. I think that's the main argument of buying something "made in Germany": Fair business conditions and stable product. Not the cheapest one. Not the one with more features. But rock solid, with long term support, etc.
From wikipedia:

Recordable MiniDiscs use a magneto-optical system to write data; a laser heats one side of the disc to its Curie point, making the material in the disc susceptible to a magnetic field; a magnetic head on the other side of the disc alters the polarity of the heated area, recording the digital data onto the disk. Playback is accomplished with the laser alone: taking advantage of the magneto-optic Kerr effect; the player senses the polarization of the reflected light and thus interprets a 1 or a 0. Recordable MDs can be rerecorded repeatedly; Sony claims up to one million times.
App seems to be using this:
https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/secret-key_cryptography/aea...

I have little experience with cryptography, and have no idea whether it is a good choice or not.

If it is, how would you convince regular people that the state of the art “something something sodium chachacha” crypto algorithm in the app is the best for them?

It might be better not to mention the name.

Some stats would be nice, like: your files would take X years to decrypt if stolen (backed by some trusted sources).
Maybe having corporations grow as fast as possible shouldn't be a standard that countries strive for?
Why would you choose to use a system that doesn't scale by default?

Single user local applications? Fair.

Web applications? Very strange choice imo.

Reddis is great, but it is *not* a database, and it's thoroughly rubbish at high load concurrency without clustering, which is (still) a massive pain in the ass to setup manually.

Of course, you can just use a hosted version off a cloud provider... but, it's generally about 10x more expensive than just a plain old database.

/shrug

I mean, sure, it's (arguably...) step up from just using sqlite, but... really, it's easy, and that's good... but it isn't good enough as a general replacement for having a real database.

(To be fair, sqlite has got some pretty sophisticated functionality too, even some support for concurrency; it's probably a step up from redis in many circumstances).
Do you have any source or reasoning for the claim that the persecution of Uyghurs is ethnic?
Redis as a cache server requires different settings from redis as a job queue. So you can’t reuse the same server anyway.
Can you give an example of how one would work against the structural and cultural biases stacked in their favor?
That's purely a US figure. In western Europe, 60% of medical graduate are women (It's almost 66% in my country). Then more women drop out of this carrer path because they can, not because they are forced out.
If I take a personal example, when studying at my university (in the top 15 QS global ranking), I had 6 girl friends that studied different fields, from physics to material science. Only one of them is still an engineer today. All by choice are now, yoga teachers, home consultant, mom at home, school teacher, etc. For my male friends maybe one decided to do something completely unrelated. I'm getting more and more suspicious about this world (at least in Europe) is unequal because of men. Women are making choice too.
> the entire EU economy grew at the same speed than the US one but not its 500 bigger companies

This is literally the article’s point. Europe and the U.S. grew similarly. The U.S. and China produced more large companies. (The Continent’s larger companies also being older than the other two’s.)

> supposedly more investment in R&D

Not supposedly, factually. The article explicitly states this. It’s the Economist; if you need a source, they’re available on Google Scholar.

> take the global innovation index, the number of Nobel price per 100'000 habitants, the number of registered patents per year or simply the size of the economy

Nobel prizes and patents are measures of innovation, albeit not commercial ones. Leading product centres are another. The article measure the latter.

Europe has constrained its big businesses and scale-oriented entrepreneurs. America and China have not. This is a tradeoff, and we’re seeing it play out. The Economist takes one side; it’s the side of iPhones, AWS, the Falcon 9, drones and other businesses with economies of scale. It’s against social sensibilities aligned against “big business.”
That's very interesting, If true then the recommendation engine would have indeed identified the supposed dichotomy thereby justifying the decision to stick with their brand.
Extrapolating the numbers to cover the whole nation has so many pitfalls that they should have left it out and kept to the facts instead.

With that said it does seem like Pokemon GO poses a substantial risk, i am reminded of this clip from the early days

https://youtu.be/MLdWbwQJWI0
For rails I’ve used que in the past, which is a job queue adapter for Postgres. It supports activejob.

https://github.com/que-rb/que
> Europe had iPhone precursors before iPhones were a thing

That’s the point. Where are they? They couldn’t compete due to lack of scale. They couldn’t scale due to structural restrictions on scale.

The next iPhone isn’t going to come from Europe. It may be first developed there. But an American or Chinese copycat will rapidly advance upon them.
A somewhat (I’m clutching approximate recollections from memory) relevant example from a customer I was helping while at a previous employer:

All infrastructure ran in us-east-1. A considerable percentage (but not the majority) of their customers were based in Australia, and quite a few of them were complaining about sluggish performance. HTTP/1.1 + TLS meant connection handshake alone took over 5 seconds! Before the first useful bit of content was sent. Add in the additional pain of a web framework that was still splitting assets across multiple asset hosts (to compensate for old browser “feature” that limited the number of concurrent requests to a single domain”). Over 30 seconds of connection setup, some of it in parallels, almost all of it blocking page render because it was for HTML or dependent scripts.

Add in a CDN (no caching) and edge termination meant single-digit millisecond handshakes to a POP in the closest major city. Also had the ability enable HTTP/2 at the edge without needing to change anything else which meant improved connection pooling for clients and less connection setup overhead. Backhaul connection reuse also has the benefit of pooling all requests via a specific POP rather than each individual client. We got rid of the asset host thing while we were at it. Just a CDN, no caching, and a greater than ~30000ms reduction in request times for anyone far from us-east-1!
Sharing from win10 to iPadOS (14.4.2) was very flakey. Installed the app on PC and tablet easily, however win10 couldn't see the tablet unless I restarted the app each time.

After understanding the workflow, sending files was pretty slick, but janky.

I suspect the iPadOS app is only announcing when it opens for the first time.
Except that is what companies like OTOY happen to build their products on.

https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/

As for the rest of the comment, usual Nvidia hate.
It is not "socially normal/acceptable" to be single parent, yet 60% of young parents are single.

You are both out of reality.
"Techies don't care about bling, they care about functionality and efficiency. When you make their search box almost indistinguishable from the background, they care. When they need extra mouse clicks to find a desired option, they care. The average mouthbreather out there? They couldn't care less. Developing tools for idiots is wrong."
The first version of Windows 11 with all out Arm support will be called "Large Surf"
All serious research I have seen says that the SAT correlates to wealth, and not to college success. Indeed GPA is a much better predictor of college success.
VMs provide stronger guarantees for maximum CPU, network, and disk usage, as well as memory size consumption. This because the abstraction boundaries are fairly clear (e.g. threads and virtual devices).
every 10th or so house is on sale and every 4th shop is closed... doesn't compute.. houses are on sale because prices are so high yet businesses around them are failing full force.
> You probably live with or near extended family, and they can often take care of the kids while you are busy

You have to reciprocate which is completelt ignored on HN. They do help you with kids and you have to help them with kids, elder care, sick care house fixing amd what not. You also dont get to make that many individualistic decisions either and many people have to accept their decisions made for them.
> those services have competition from other countries

That absolutely might have an effect on wages in the US. However, its unlikely that real GDP would be unaffected while real wages stagnate in such a case.

> I'm not sure how anyone could credibly make claims

Lots of things happen in the world all the time in every decade. The internet isn't any more novel than electricity was or the industrial revolution was. Yes there are a lot of confounding variables that make it difficult to make empiracle conclusions. But the largest market manipulators (central banks and governments) do play a substantial role in macroeconomics, and its completely fair IMO to conjecture around the effects of those things using logic and theory.
> He used median instead of mean

What's the difference when you only have two values in the set?
It is not possible to argue that Volvo is European anymore unfortunately.

It was sold by the american company Ford to the chinese company Geely.
When one is lucky to use server hardware as workstation, and works in domains that don't depend on selling binary libraries for their business.
Europeans know all that, yet they don't see the US and the bigger is better mentality as a good example - more like a dystopia, especially since 2016. This has led to a state of mind in Europe which can be described as "let's do the opposite of whatever the US did, so we don't have to suffer through the same fate". The only company that is still somewhat of a shining example to Europeans is Apple. That's it.
Facebook, Walmart, Starbucks, Tesla, and the others mentioned, are seen as dangerous trash. Apple is awesome though, and one company that wouldn't look out of place in Europe with its dedication to consumer privacy.

And China can't be compared to any Western-style democratic system anyway.
For thousands of applications deployed, they're most probably never need scale.
Generally speaking, I’d say run towards something, not away from something. And if you choose to leave, let your current thing fund your search for the next thing.
Reminds me of the Schaum’s Outline Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables by Murray Spiegel, which is more concise and better organized. My uncle gave me his copy when I was 12 years old and that got me started on my road to mathematics.
Firing isn't 'harder', it just has to be done correctly.
If work ethic = employees working very hard, I don't think it is a good indicator of a business doing well. From my experience in software at least, Europeans tend to have an excellent work discipline with healthy work-life boundaries. When you look at aggregates, the productivity is pretty much on par if not better, and you have to question why other countries promote this culture of peer pressure where employees constantly feel the need to outcompete each other, while the business thinks it's extracting maximum value out of its resources.
That's probably the best example. Some legacy app no one wants to support
You continue to impress me with how you take what you do and your values so seriously. I honestly made the comment above with the intent to ping you with the suggestion after your current social media storm faded a touch. Thanks for teaching me how to feed myself better over the last few years.
Education about familly planning and availability of contraception do in fact influence fertility in developing countries. Also, spcifically education for women does a lot too.

As in, when people are able to reliably plan children, they have less of them.
I'm in literally the same conundrum.
>There was a post a few days ago (or comments at least) discussing how many people working low wage jobs in the US are working 29 hours or fewer specifically so their employer doesn't need to provide health insurance. Are there social programs that cover those people, or do they just not go to the doctor when sick?

Details vary by state, but generally Medicaid, a public insurance program, kicks in for those below a certain income level.

Contrary to what Reddit would have you believe, 91% of Americans have medical insurance (<https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...>), whether through their employers, or government programs like Medicare/Medicaid. That's compared to 95-97% in other developed countries because there are always some people who fall through cracks, like (say) a Canadian who doesn't get a new provincial health care card after moving, or a German who neglects to buy into a new sickness fund after changing careers.

Two thirds of Americans have private medical insurance. One third have public insurance of some type, including 20% from the aforementioned Medicaid.

Some large chunk of the 4-6% differential in the US versus other countries is illegal aliens who don't qualify for public insurance and are working cash jobs that don't provide private insurance. The only such national systems with actual 100% (or as close to it as possible) coverage is something like the UK NHS, which does not have a requirement to show a membership card (because, well, there isn't one) to receive treatment.
Correct, you also shouldn’t have supervisor processes in a container, as this prevents detection of crashed containers.

We’ve seen container with all sorts of weirdness, where half the service could crash and Docker would never notice, because the supervisor process was still running and that was the entry point for the image.
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You're focusing on the "public record", when you need to be focusing on what constitutes blackmail, extortion, bribery, etc.

And while expungement is a complicated thing, it generally means that legally, it never happened. That has tons and tons of different legal interpretations even within one jurisdiction, depending on the who/what/why.

For instance you might be legally protected to claim you were never arrested when getting your driver's license, or applying for a job, but not on a concealed-carry permit application.

Depending on how a 3rd party distributes that expunged info, it could be considered libel or slander, especially once the publisher/speaker is made aware of the falsehood, or given a court order, yet persists.

Judges don't usually bother ordering newspapers to try and collect and destroy what's already been distributed, but...

Papers are certainly not allowed to reprint it or continue to publish/distribute after they've been given whatever constitutes legal notice. At least some jurisdictions will award punitive-damage-multipliers for continuing to distribute those falsehoods after some point where they should have known not to.

So if you're sending out an email newsletter, you might be ok by not sending that issue to anyone else.

But leaving the same content on a website would probably be considered "continuing to publish."

Which basically means: it's complicated.

And that doesn't even touch the blackmail or extortion elements.