skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting statistics and some pretty good counter arguments to the narrative “everyone knows is true”.

In particular the commentary about wealth versus age is an important one. Baby boomers are an outsized generation. They are in retirement which is the wealthiest period of one’s life. So one should expect inequity to rise with their rising wealth, then fall after they pass away.
Mostly older people use Facebook and real identities. I don't have a lot of experience with mediums that young people use like Instagram and Tik Tok, but I'm under the impression that people goof around and try to outdo each other. Even young people use it in a sophisticated way. I was thinking of the young and naive, like people teens who first get on it (but they learn fast.)
“Arguably, the main reason why costs have gone up in [healthcare and education] is because society is richer, and thus more willing to bear the cost of better facilities and higher wages for healthcare and education workers.”

Please show me the nurse or teacher whose wages have risen proportionately to the cost of healthcare or education…
The vast majority of candidates below the VP level will not be successful in negotiating the exercise window. Certainly not a startup past the seed round.

Also this title is clickbait, no one forced this person to pay anything. Walking away from equity for free is always an option that some people take.
Sundogs: What Are They
Makes sense. NaNs are super weird: quiet/signaling variants, as well as they're technically a set of values, WRT to which bits indicate them.
In the early 1950s my parents got married.

The first house they rented was $10 per month.

Minimum wage at that time was 75 cents per hour.

Ignoring taxation, you could rent a place for two people for approximately 15 hours a month. I don't think that there is an equivalent situation anywhere in the USA at this point...
The about page? https://www.memorysafety.org/about/ That phrase isn't on the page linked in the story either.

I fully agree that sentence is terrible. I did not see that when making my comment.
Sure, I realize they want to make money on ads like facebook, but the reality is (admittedly I could be wrong) they make more on those trophy awards. It seems to have a lot to do with why they struggle to make a profit and go public.
Omg, you've gone too long without a good chair my friend. I did not like the Aeron at my last job more than my Herman Miller Mirra 2. A good keyboard and properly adjustable monitor arm are key as well.

I like the Mirra 2 more because it it suspends my boney ass in a way that I can easily just forget that I'm sitting for hours. As another person mentioned, this is awful for general health, but if you'd be doing it anyway, this is one option. I also like it because it's more adjustable, and looks way better. It's the nicest thing I own, and after 7 years, (12 year warranty), it's pristine. I've also tried the Sayl, and HM has a few othwrs that look and feel great. I'm sure the Aeron can be good, but I don't find it to be. I do not have a headrest either, and I'm a good few inches over 6 feet.
Getting an active sitting chair is great if you fidget too. I bought an Ariel from https://qor360.com/ at the begging of the pandemic and I love it. It's an unstable stool so your body can always be in motion. Office chairs had always given me back pain but it went away with this chair (+yoga and a better mattress).

The seat is very firm, however. It took a while to adjust to.
"Adafruit:

Hackaday.io hosts a variety of unusual projects. Will Siemens exert any content restrictions over independent creators there? Will Siemens provide staff to care for and manage the Hackaday community?

Siemens:

Siemens did not respond to this question."

Yikes!

Hackaday staff should register hackevery24hours.com to start a new site when Siemens eventually destroys the original.
> “‘No Spectators’ is a long-standing saying on Playa. You are encouraged to fully participate. It’s all about being there, being fully present, and not just observing. Two of the ten principles of Burning Man are radical participation and radical inclusivity, meaning that there are no outsiders. Everyone is part of the experience.”

That sounds like shit the big head on the screen would yell at Winston in the opening chapter of an updated 1984.
> no one could dream of owning a house and supporting a family of four with no college degree today

There are plenty of tradespeople who would beg to differ.
Can you make side money with C++?
As a web developer you can build small websites. Mobile app developers can build apps. Most C++ work is part of something bigger, so you're kind of stuck with a job.

Any ideas or suggestions?
>>yes it does. it allows stakers to prevent non-stakers from becoming stakers. all rewards go to stakers. rich get richer even faster.

No it doesn't. As I already explained, there is no practical way holders can collude to force all holders of the currency to not sell. There will always be significant liquidity for any currency that has as wide a distribution of holders that Ethereum does.

>>public announcement means nothing if participation is permissioned.

The crowdsale was not permissioned. It was completely programmatic.

>>there was 12% blatant premine

Which was publicly disclosed compensation for the developers who created Ethereum, as well as an allocation for grants to further develop Ethereum.

>>and 60% so called "pre-sale", of which undisclosed amount went to scammers that organized it and didn't have to pay anything.

This allegation of the pre-sale being a scam is totally unsubstantiated. It's irresponsible character assassination.

>>randoms on internet being rude to scammers.

The credibility of avowed critics of Ethereum, who make totally unsubstantiated allegations of the organizers of Ethereum's crowdsale of being scammers, is relevant to these discussions.

Moreover, your criticism is not relevant to PoS. It's specifically critical of Ethereum, since Ethereum had a premine and crowdsale. PoS doesn't have to have either. So once again, your analysis seems entirely biased and agenda-driven.
The confusion here is perhaps that I jumped from B to F. The number of successful Opensource projects in Javaworld are astounding, and the OSS/Library work in .net is there but in comparison is miniscule. That feeds into the stereotype of .net developers being cookie-cutter VB-eseque Enterprise developers, which even feeds into their pay.

JavaWorld is bigger and Java developer count exceeds .net developer count, so the whole scarcity thing is a static explanation of a much complex dynamic environment. The intent here is not to complain about .net dev wages.
Could be worse. Check out this hog composting:

https://youtu.be/U9kw0A9_oCM
This "analysis" in this post is so bad it's laughable. And I say this not as someone who is a Millennial, but someone who is in an older generation and feels damn lucky I was able to get a college education and a house before they became hopelessly out of reach.
I completely agree with the outsider manipulation part (e.g. how it affects US elections), what im not clear on is how this affects clear speech
Thank you and yes, the algorithm is a problem. I may have a funny thing that one set of friends like, but the algorithm shows it to another set who don't get it because it wasn't for them, but because they logged on first or some other algorithmic input they get it and the others don't. Maybe FB should let me input hints on who I intend it for.
The article is filled with nonsensical points. I tried to make a list, but didn't want to post a wall of text.

"even if these gains merely reflected the fact that old people are getting richer, rather than young people, it wouldn't make much of a difference to my general argument, as millennials will eventually get older, and thus benefit from these gains just as old people do now."

Let me rephrase that: even if I'm wrong and millennials are worse off, I'm sure they'll do better later.

Further down he answers the question about whether it's harder for millennials to buy a home with the national home ownership rate... a stat that isn't broken down by age group.

I read this entire article and I regret it.
Crypto. Exchanges can buy tether with crypto.

Or... Tether can print and buy crypto, these two scenarios are exactly the same.
The CPU used in the thesis is a barrel processor. There is a forcible context switch every clock cycle, equal priority round robin for now although more sophisticated prioritization schemes could be used.

The advantage of a barrel scheduler is that you never can have more than one pair of instructions in the pipeline from the same thread at a given time, so data hazards are impossible and all of the checking/forwarding logic can be entirely absent from the CPU.

You lose single-thread performance with this vs more conventional hyperthreading, but it's much simpler to implement.
122F... lol.... I guess they forgot that we have a sun?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/06/16/16/44302655-9692943-...
For the home router? What becomes Rust? The DNS/NTP/DHCP stuff? That is some mature code, is it really a problem? Or those web-interfaces to set your WiFi passwords? Wouldn't you still use iptables/ipset for blocking/routing? Or do you rewrite kernel modules too?
Very much appreciate this! I've been interested in studying higher level mathematics mostly as... well, just an interest and also to brush up on things that now feel long forgotten but didn't know where to start and wasn't really looking to attend school for it.

Now to see if I have the discipline...
Not mentioned in the article but just as noteworthy are some of the graphs prepared by Florence Nightingale that detailed the leading causes of deaths of British soldiers during the Crimean War and prompted reforms in medical practices [0][1]

[0] https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/florenc...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/aug/13/floren...
war! Do you think peaceful protest will stop mafia? Will peaceful protest stop Nazi? Before 1984 come to western, China need to be stopped.
California digital Covid-19 vaccine record
I had some ideas for quotas but never got to the point of fully building that part of the system.
I don't think any of that is an indictment of the system. If 10% lead to arrests for gun crimes that might have otherwise been missed, then that's pretty good.
Scrolling with L/R does affect (at least some) spawns. It’s completely possible to use it to scroll enemies on/off screen.
From her second paragraph that frames the whole article.

> And these things weren’t said as the conclusions of careful, extended argument. They were casual assertions. They were the kind of thing you skip over without pause because it’s the uncontroversial part of your talk.

Did I miss her refuting her own initial assertion later in the article? Are you teasing out or interpreting between the line the position you assert that she espouse because you got it from somewhere later in the article?
Building a closed loop cooler isn't exactly rocket science. And, tbh, if I lived in an area where satellite internet was my only practical option, I'm not sure that I'd consider that particularly burdensome.

Despite all the hype, this is still basically a niche product.
The article says it is about dryness, not anything to do with a magnetosphere.
Also tell that to Twitter then. [0] They seem to be above the law in this case.

[0] https://twitter.com/mike_salter/status/1352342668370579456?l...
It might depend on whether the advertising conveys the limitation correctly to the consumer.

I had a home router once that was cutting out in the summer. The operating environment section of the manual listed a temperature range that went up to something like 105 ℉. My apartment was below 80 ℉ so didn't think that was the problem.

It turns out that they meant 105 ℉ inside the router. Opening the router case and placing it so a fan I used to circulate room air was blowing over the router made the problem go away.

I think it is reasonable to assume when writing a manual that if you tell a consumer that the device can be operated in an environment with a temperature range of X-Y, the consumer will take it to mean that if the temperature in their room is in that range they can use the device. If that's not what the range means, you should tell the consumer.

Is the Starlink manual clear on this?
OK, but if I wore what I consider a coat and boots, I would still die if I were outside for very long.
I look forward to a day, if it will ever happen, that I can have a ZFS RAIDZ2 with arbitrary number of disks of arbitrary sizes.
Ah, so Linux is approaching feature parity with FreeBSD jails?
Here's a bit of detail about an internal attack I was involved with: http://boston.conman.org/2004/09/19.1 It wasn't a disgruntled employee---it was an employee who was hired by another party to get hired by the target, spend six months there, and did his thing on a particular date.
Know several people below VP who negotiated extensions. Never hurts to ask especially if the cash difference can be life-changing
This ignores the effects of an aging population and changes in household size during that time.
There is this odd schizophrenia where the 50s were viewed as this golden age of middle class workers while at the same time a period of vicious sexism/racism/etc, which causes people to complain at how much worse they have things while simultaneously insisting about how much moral progress has been made.

What would be nice is some kind of self-aware synthesis of these views, one that isn't based on therapeutic expressions but actual analysis. For example, recognizing that opening the labor force to women and more immigration increased labor supply and drove down wages. Opening up international capital flows opened the doors to outsourcing and deindustrialization. Pitting the various ethnic groups in the U.S. against each other and promoting multi-culturalism has likewise resulted in an erosion of solidarity and thus an increase defecting on the social compact. I can respect people saying that on balance they think things are better today or worse today as long as there is some argument to back that up that takes the relevant tradeoffs into account. But there is unfortunately very little of that type of analysis on offer in these types of articles.
I vaguely recall using the L/R scroll to intentionally alter event timing, and needing to be aware of viewport variations from my usual run as I got faster, to avoid something being in the wrong place. But it has been many years now since I last played. I don’t recall SMW having much that needed to trigger in any particular order or speed, outside of the autoscroll levels. But since some levels already have too many sprites to keep up performance, I don’t think they would have been as worried about time precision as much as stopping extra work as soon as objects are hidden off-screen.
There's also the increase in non-tenure track profs instead of tenured positions[1]. One could argue the quality of education is falling, not rising.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-eve...
Unless I’m misunderstanding you, I think you’re slightly misunderstanding me. It brings poor incentives for companies that make their money from selling advertising space. It does not bring poor incentives for businesses that advertise (besides the desire to censor content, but that’s a different issue).

If you’re still not clear on why it brings poor incentives, or you disagree, think about it this way:

For a company like Netflix, their customers are the people who use their service, and their product is their service. i.e. they’re selling how much you like their content. They don’t care about how long or addictively you watched it, as long as you pay every month. This is healthy.

For a company than runs a TV channel, their customers - for the most part - are advertisers, and their product is their viewers. They’re selling the viewership of their channel to companies. I.e. they’re selling how long and intently they can keep you watching their channel, and how easily they can get you to open your wallet. This is clearly unhealthy.

This applies heavily to the digital media environment too. I can give more examples, if it’d help
Yes, and having the option to rent those nice brand new apartments means the wealthy are a lot less likely to compete with the less wealthy over the same shitty 40 year old apartments. More vacancy is a big win for someone who can only afford a 40 year old apartment.
This is one of those things that feels relative, in that we keep pushing the age of "good health" further and further as we, well, get healthier. What's if when you're 90 and healthy that you say, "it'd be nice if I could just take a pill and live to 150"?
The Visualization of Primes and Its Potential Significance
I would like to understand how my comment falls under the is/ought fallacy.

> Is a person on the spectrum or with aspergers or with asthma more worthy of immediate death alone on an island compared to a "typical" person?

That is a nuanced question that I don't have an answer for. I would tend towards saying no though.

> The decision you find easy, rational and ethical, is only so if you have one of a few particular views of human value and you hold it strongly/dogmatically and in your supreme surety have no scruples in executing that position on actual people

I wrote my comment based on conventional societal views and under the assumption that all else equal, these are the rational choices.

I probably tend to align to societal views on this topic, but my comment was not really supposed to be a personal take.
Good Pressure, Bad Pressure
That’s your contribution? The analysis of “laughable”?
Last week we had a heat wave that hit 37C, we had internet the entire time. Just my anecdata, but I have yet to see a thermal shutdown.
> California can't build a single fast train, while China is laying down more rail than anyone in history in a very short period of time.

The US has had high-speed rail since the 1960s (Metroliner service, now the Acela Express), in the same decade that the technology was introduced in Japan and France. The failure of the technology to see further adoption in the US is due to politics, economics, competition from alternative transport modes, etc, not due to any purely technological issues. China's lead in implementation of high-speed rail is due to a political decision to invest in deploying it, not because China has any significant lead in the underlying technology.

> Soon they will start building commercial aircraft and wipe out Boeing and Airbus in everything but domestic markets.

Comac hasn't wiped Airbus and Boeing out yet. That is surely their aim but time will tell whether they actually manage to achieve it. Their main customer base is Chinese airlines, who will follow the CCP’s instructions in buying local. Comac will likely have some success in Africa and parts of Asia, but is unlikely to challenge Airbus and Boeing's lock on major first-world air carriers. The US is unlikely to allow US airlines to buy from Comac, and will encourage allied governments to apply the same policy.
Google shows me loads of industrial SBC devices that operate from -40 to +85C(!) that are under $200 USD.

It's not reasonable for Starlink?
This is exactly the whole "agile" vs traditional/waterfall mentality, scooters before motorcars, etc., put into practice. Hardware is hard.

> It's also completely possible that the parts simply aren't available

Fun fact: they don't make (commercially available) GPUs, NICs, pretty much any PC components rated below 0°F. If you need to design a system which needs to sit in an aircraft in Deadhorse, Alaska, you either pay out the nose for some serious engineering, or you just roll the dice. We rolled, and it turned out fine. That won't always be the case.

What Spacex is doing is smart, not sloppy.
Of course, with pure functional programming with no state under the hood, you would have failed at your original challenge of "build a graph" without further constraints (it's rather hard to ensure totality or that every pointer is accessible when you allow arbitrary cycles).

I'm also not sure why you feel functional programming relieves you of the responsibility of making sure appropriate barriers are created between writes and reads to disk--message passing is more fundamental than programming paradigms, and you physically must make sure your messages synchronize somehow (and that you can recover from corrupted state, if there's a crash). Just writing once simply is not enough here! Also, without mutable state, how do I find the new head (where the appended stuff starts?). This has historically been a very annoying problem to deal with!

Not that I think most of these concerns affect us much during day-to-day programming, by the way! I just find this a particularly poor example of the benefits of FP. In pretty much any useful distributed system, there will be some moving parts that need to be synchronized (like the actual messages to the storage layer), some state that needs to be maintained (root information a bootloader can follow to restore the system), and some weird domain specific stuff that's very hard to encode in types (like crash recovery, in this case). This is true whether or not what you want to do is conceptually purely functional--someone has to make decisions at each of these points about whether and how to expose the inner workings of the system, often in a way that trades off against things like flexibility, space overhead, reliability, and performance. And those decisions have to be relayed to the computer via some programming language that can talk state (or embedded into the hardware).

Accepting that reality doesn't mean that everything has to be written in a "multiparadigm language" or anything like that, but it does mean being cautious about declaring that your favorite technique will automatically solve the issues plaguing another area of CS.
Isn’t the whole point of options really to keep people from quitting? You don’t have to pay a tax bill unless you exercise them, but if you wait for your company to get acquired you’ll get cashed out for a net positive (assuming your shares are “in the money”)
There is an interesting article about this.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/starl...

> Officially, SpaceX has said that "Dishy McFlatface" is certified to operate from 22° below zero up to 104° Fahrenheit. Temperatures reached about 120° yesterday in Martin's town of Topock,

> the Starlink app provided an error message saying, "Offline: Thermal shutdown." The dish "overheated" and "Starlink will reconnect after cooling down," the error message said.
There is a huge difference this time: Intel no longer has a process lead and is actually now far behind the best fab (TSMC). Intel was able to come back last time because of Core + best fab in the industry. Without that advantage this time, it will be much more difficult for them.

They also used shady practices like paying OEMs to not use AMD CPUs. They were heavily fined for this. If they try to do it again, the government will likely give a greater punishment this time since they would be repeating the same crime. Especially now with the anti-trust friendly sentiments within the government.
You Can Get a Home in Croatia for Less Than a Dollar
You can’t cash $2. There’s a 25 BAT minimum
On this page: The first person to fill out this form with a name, DOB, and a cell # or email address can steal a person's data-record and lock out the intended person from accessing the data.
Great and fun idea, but the resolution of these files is incredibly low.
Making practical tradeoffs to get what's important is engineering reality.
Peloton: How the Bike Company Has Become a Global Content Brand
The ones needed to do your job. Anything else is a bonus.