skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The HDD ASIC certainly is doing those computations.

The issue is that Backblaze has a 2nd layer of error correction codes. This 2nd layer of error correction codes needs to be calculated somewhere. If enough errors come from a drive, the administrators take down the box and replace the hard-drives and resilver the data.

Backblaze physically distributes the data over 20 separate computers in 20 separate racks. Some computer needs to run the math to "Combine" the data (error correction + checksums and all) back into the original data on every single read. So singular hard drive can do this math because the data has been reliably dispersed to so many different computers.
How? where do you save it all and how do you find the time?
$5k/week is $260,000 per year, which would put a person in the top 98% of earners in the US.
A Tale of 4 Strings
Existence of such groups is not your original assertion. You stated:

> People are disinclined to support your rights if they see you as advocating against theirs.

By that argument, the Libertarians would be loved by everybody, but they aren't, because it's no longer a discussion on ethics, it's a fight over holly dogma. The ACLU will no longer support people on the Right in the name of Free Speech. Lines in the sand have been dug by the left, and they no longer crosses them. The right, (ie. the MSM's fascist) however do it all the time because they are the most open ones. If you are a gay 1sh amendment absolutist, you aren't gay, you're just a nazi. The ancients Greeks are no longer the bases of our culture/civilization, they're esclavagist.
How and why is this remotely legal!
At this point, fuck 'em.

I have zero sympathy for anybody that has CHOSEN not to get the vaccine and then dies or suffers permanent lung damage from COVID.

I want to put extra emphasis on the CHOICE here, because I know there are some people that for whatever health issue they have, they legitimately cannot get the vaccine.
I don't understand your intention here. It seems like you are shitting on the guy.

He is trying to build something useful, which may take some pivots, and that is nothing to be ashamed of.
Maybe this one? https://www.businessinsider.com/gun-deaths-in-florida-increa...
In many countries you can't sue for defamation as easily as you appear to be able to the US. In the UK its required that you demonstrate loss or reputational damage, given how obvious it is that this is a mistake and the speed in which it was fixed, I think its highly unlikely to stand up in court. Simply calling someone a name isn't enough.

OP appears to be in Switzerland, where I'm not familiar with the laws.
Ivermectin no better than a placebo for adults with mild Covid-19
The argument was that Facebook is so big that they’re a danger. Limiting their speech is not compatible with US law, as you mention.

So the proper solution is not to limit what they can say. It’s to stop them being so big that they are a danger.
That's not a week's salary for most of the US, maybe in SV and NYC. $5k/week is $260k/year. The median salary in 2019 was apparently $107k or so for software developers, which is more like $2k/week. I wouldn't expect it to have more than doubled in the past 2 years.
Careful, you are incredibly out of touch with reality
I don’t have the formal education or know how to get hired as a developer, and make 35k a year in Seattle doing non-developer stuff. $5k would be pretty neat. It does remind me of the height of the flash game period though (where I started programming!)
It's actually the vendor that registers Macs. Only iOS devices can be registered to Apple DEP manually. Macs can't, only the vendor can do so, whether it's Apple or whoever else.
As recently as a decade ago, Linux was borderline unusable for a home computer. Lots of driver problems. Lack of software.

In contrast to Apple's OSs (and increasingly Windows) which assumes you don't know what you're doing, Linux as a whole basically assumes you already know everything you need to know about what you're doing. Fixing a display issue could be a whole adventure, complete with side-quests as you worked your way to a solution. Not the best experience TBH.

Some time between 2010-ish and 2015, Linux (at least Mint and Ubuntu) suddenly became MUCH better. I'm not saying it's perfect, but things tend to "just work" much more often. A lot of the open source software improved by leaps and bounds during that period as well.

Sadly for the past few years, I game at home, and I'm stuck using windows programs at work (embedded development), so I haven't really kept up well with Linux.
If you are in the US, and you write something on a work machine, your employer owns it.

As you might be able to imagine, this happens pretty often.
Do you charge your company for desk space at your house?

It's not being talked about much, but since companies are okay paying landlords billions, they seem to be shy to pay their employees for use of their homes as offices.
5k is a weeks salary? Thats 260k a year. That is executive salary and not common at all.
I signed up, but didn't do any of the verification. I'm from Canada and they're not in FINTRAC (our KYC/AML regulator), so I'm not willing to give them any personal information beyond what I'd use for a normal credit card transaction.

The thing is I wanted a brandable name that I could likely get for less than $.50, but I'd be willing to pay $50 via credit card to avoid dealing with HNS. I would literally pay 100x the market rate to avoid dealing with their crypto currency because, by the time I deal with the bookkeeping and taxes of a crypto purchase, it costs me more than $50 in time and effort.
For me the Big Deal is Backblaze B2. Especially when fronted by Cloudflare -- zero traffic costs. Storage is cheap as far as cloud storage provider goes and traffic is decidedly the cheapest possible.
Thus far, https://postmarketos.org/ has seemed the most likely "real Linux" distro for smartphones and tablets.

If this Mobile NixOS can get solid support on as many or more devices (including using mainline Linux, with no closed drivers, but possibly closed blobs for now), that will be another option.

BTW, one thing I don't want to see happen to any of these distros is for PinePhone to be the only actually solid device. Tempting as that device may be. If the distro doesn't run well on many devices, that's not a good sign for long-term viability, and it's also potentially awkward.
$5K a week? That's about a quarter of a million a year ... is that a typical US salary?
5k is a lot of money to the vast majority of the world.
It is a considerable amount of money to most software developers.
How the Brain Learns to Respond to Changing Conditions
Thanks!

The SEC's rules around trading (today) really prohibit a lot of the "obvious" ideas people have had about how to slow down trading. We have some stuff in the works here, but it won't be public for a while.

That said, we have adopted a construct that we call the "Very Simple Market" that eliminates a number of trading "features" such as hidden liquidity. We think this makes it a more conducive environment for the longest-term investors to trade. We also have a business model that is much more aligned with the long-term investors and companies than most incumbents. We don't seek to maximize our trading volume, so that requires us to make money by helping our customers run their businesses better.

As we say in SV, if you're not the customer, you're the product. This applies to issuers as well.

On your latter point, you've got it right. We don't think we have an exclusive on good ideas, and there's definitely examples where talented founders have found ways to build for the long-term in spite of the existing market structures.

But when was the last time you heard a CEO say that they were able to think long-term _because_ of the markets in stead of in spite? That to me is a key difference
There's no spike in request rate (activity) on June 8th. There are spikes in vote and comment processing backlogs, related to a Fastly outage that effected Reddit on that date.
Who manages departmental needs for majors that require equipment (STEM) and audits the expenses? Who hires and does a Background check of these auditors and admission officials and professors?
There is a bunch of small tools that exist online (base64 encoders, hash functions, SPF rule generators, etc). Most of these wouldn't make much money, maybe enough to cover hosting.

I could imagine someone basically picking these up and collectively monetizing with ads, or other methods. Likely not suitable for a massive business, but likely able to sustain a sole operator or even a small team if operated frugally.
Malware/adware authors would love to buy those.
I heard from an insider that it was a popup from an unlicensed copy of winrar, I have notified my neighbors and the braintrust of grandchildren, nephews, nieces and a corgi are working out a solution, unfortunately they are having problems getting minecraft, roboblox and fortnight to work with the payload software. The experts who originally wrote the code and then retired and are unable to help since the suffered from covid related 5g headaches. The management then outsourced the problem but cannot understand the contractors not because of a language barrier but because on Zoom debugging calls they are required to wear masks even though an ocean separates them. Never fear I'm dual booting Arch (BTW) and Windows 11 and have written a preliminary AI, Blockchain, ML application in Visual Basic and am on the case, it now routes through an Android app on the Amazon app store that can communicate to a Ham tower through a TNC and a Baofeng radio but I am waiting on a part from an overseas shipment. FedEx says it is still in transit on the "Ever given" which was routed through Ireland and was blocked by a creature called the waterhorse, but I gave it tree fiddy.
Yet today phones have really excellent separation of personal and private data. Like Android Work Profile which basically is a small virtual phone inside your phone which is controlled by your employer, with the benefit that they can't look at any of your personal stuff and you can switch the whole thing off easily.
We're techies. It's always an interesting list of questions:

1) why?
2) can they blame some CDN or cloud provider?
3) was it global or local
4) yea but really.. why? what is the SRE story?
definitely top 98%, maybe even top 2%
The ownership of the platform itself is the problem. We now have the tools to build platforms that are not dependent on individual companies.
> "north" is definitely a piece of text in JSON, however we don’t necessarily think about it as arbitrary text. Indeed, the common case is that direction will contain one of many pre-defined values, and the use of text here just makes it easier to communicate

We call that "stringly-typed code", and it's an anti-pattern. https://wiki.c2.com/?StringlyTyped
That's not really how it's done.

RS is normally used as erasure code: It's used when writing (to compute code blocks), and when reading _only when data is missing_. Checksums are used to detect corrupt data, which is then treated as missing and RS used to reconstruct it. Using RS to detect/correct corrupt data is very inefficient.

Checksums are also normally free (CRC + memcpy on most modern CPUs runs in the same time that memcpy does: it's entirely memory bound).

The generation of code blocks is also fairly cheap: Certainly no large matrix multiplications! This is because the erasure code generally only spans a small number of blocks (e.g. 10 data blocks), so every code byte is only dependent on 10 data bytes. The math for this is reasonably simple, and further simplified with some reasonable sized look-up tables.

That's not to say that there is no CPU needed, but it's really not all that much, certainly nothing that needs acceleration support.
I think that runs into issues with anti-cheat though. Neither the very popular Easy Anti Cheat or even Valve's own Valve Anti Cheat work through Proton. While Linux native versions of both work fine.
"Many complain about Bezos making billions and not paying a fair share of taxes; yet they support and empower him to further do so with every purchase they make from Amazon."

From what I understand, the vast majority of Amazon's profit comes not from the e-commerce website but from AWS.

And the overwhelming majority of Bezos' net worth comes from the value of Amazon's stock, does it not?

So aren't the people who are most responsible for his wealth the purchasers of Amazon's stock, not the users of the e-commerce part of the business?
Yep, especially those developers who have to clean up messes made by "go fast" people.
Nope, that's a very good idea. I personally don't think long-term investors should have to pay the same price to buy stock as speculators. But in finance this is still considered a very radical notion, so I think it will be some time before we see this idea adopted
Early Reddit had a large number of communities with their own rules. Before that you had message boards that had mostly homogeneous moderation. The moderation for /r/askhistorians was different from /r/humor and that was a key part of the design.

Without this I doubt Reddit would have progressed much from its early programmer audience. It’s not accidental they took a light touch and let communities self moderate in the beginning.
> Some of my favorite research shows what happens to pairwise-matched companies where one went public and one stayed private. The effects are totally predictable.

That sounds like an interesting read. How can I find it?
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. I hope the same remains true for the tissues they use in this plant.

Also, "meat plant" is an oxymoron.
While I agree with the spirit of what you're saying (as a linux user myself) the problem is that we have to recognize that developers have limited bandwidth. Windows is also generating more revenue for them, so it is going to take priority.

Though for an indie game it probably isn't crazy to make the code open sourced and then put those users to work for you. That can really help reduce the burden. But of course opens you up for people stealing your software (which let's also be real, happens anyways).
I understand, maybe if it’s doing small amounts?

I’m just curious about the offers and I can afford that kind of money for an experiment as long as there’s a long shot of making something out of it.
> the company (by definition) is worth $0 on the day you start it.

Is it?

If Elon Musk forms a corporation tomorrow, its market value is more than $0 before he does a single thing with it.

And that’s all the IRS should care about for Roth contribution limits: market value.

If I buy 1000 shares of PayPal from my mom for $2000 (mkt value: a lot more!) and put that into my IRA and tell the IRS that $2000 is the price we agreed (in the marketplace of the dinner table).
https://ifworlddesignguide.com/entry/281015-poweredge-r740xd... super interesting design.
Which sometimes gives the false impression that criminals naturally go by all three names. A lot of TV shows will create a fictional serial killer named something like John Michael Doe because that sounds more "sinister" than just John Doe.
I have seen that some exchanges like NASDAQ are considering adding social justice elements into their requirements for listed companies. For instance, NASDAQ had submitted a proposal to force diversity of boards on companies (https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nasdaq-to-advance-diver...). Personally I do not like the mission creep and politicization of institutions in general, and am wondering where/how you draw the line on what you will require of companies.

Your listing principles page (https://longtermstockexchange.com/listings/principles/) is interesting in that there's a lot I agree with (like compensation policy) but then some other principles (like "The company’s approach to diversity and inclusion" or "The company’s impact on the environment and its community") are vague enough that I am not sure what it implies. Is it fair to consider LTSE a "progressive" financial institution?
No, not even for software developers.

Median household income in 2020 in the US was about $62k. Average was almost $88k.
> What other car company is going to bother sinking money into an electrical charging network when they can use someone elses?

Many companies. Tesla's chargers are slow.

Circle K is deploying 300 kW chargers, faster than any Tesla charger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TVohXHjLro

Ionity deploys 350 kW chargers, also faster than any Tesla charger: https://ionity.eu/en/design-and-tech.html

Repsol deployed 400 kW chargers two years ago: https://insideevs.com/news/375020/repsol-most-powerful-charg...

All of these chargers can be used by all cars, including Teslas.
Good additions. Thank you.
You don't reverse an axis by accident.
I think the "turing test" for code generation would be to be able to do most leetcode problems and other competitive programming problems. If you can do that you have done something amazing, and the dataset and testing for it already exists.
> “REMINDER: IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT ALL RECENT COMMERCIAL COLOR LASER PRINTERS PRINT SOME KIND OF FORENSIC TRACKING CODES, NOT NECESSARILY USING YELLOW DOTS. THIS IS TRUE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE CODES ARE VISIBLE TO THE EYE AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PRINTER MODELS ARE LISTED HERE. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE PRINTERS THAT ARE LISTED HERE AS NOT PRODUCING YELLOW DOTS.”

So the title is misleading; this list indicates whether dots have been observed, not whether they are present.
> Interment [euphemism for] concentration camp

"Concentration camp" is a euphemism when you're actually talking about death/extermination camps.

The difference between an "internment camp" and a "concentration camp" isn't entirely clear to me, but the terms were originally meant to mean what they say at face value: camps where people are concentrated or interned. The interment camps for Japanese Americans were concentration camps in the literal face-value meaning of the at term. They took a group of people that was spread out over the whole west coast and concentrated them down into a few small camps.

A camp that is purpose built to exterminate people, not merely concentrate them, should be called an extermination camp. In casual conversation extermination camps are often called 'concentration camps', but that is clearly euphemistic. (This is somewhat complicated by the fact that many nazi extermination camps were also concentration camps. "Auschwitz" was a cluster of several camps, some of them extermination camps, some of them concentration camps. Treblinka on the other hand was an extermination camp but not also a concentration camp.)
> how reputation

finances, credit, rental, legal, personal, family, work, online rep - all wrecked

> why suicide

lots of reasons, too many to list
How about freedom and no limit? Why limit?
> successfully used an instrument designed for the 'middle class' to shelter billions in earnings

A Roth IRA is beneficial if positions are being changed (taxable events), because those taxes are deferred. For very long term holding, the benefit caps out at 20% in exchange for tying up the assets for decades.

He will eventually benefit, if the company is still valuable when he comes of retirement age, by avoiding the single long term capital gains hit he would otherwise pay. It'll be more of a story, then, if the stock is near an all time high value, but frankly, this is not a scalable investment strategy for the wealthy sheltering their wealth (which would be a more interesting story). This only worked because he has been an exceptionally prescient investor. This wouldn't be a good strategy for every startup founder, because even if the startup was mega-successful, the founders would not be rich until retirement.
>> Windows

I've tried Linux and got tired of it randomly breaking and its configuration hell, Windows is a bit more stable, also with WSL developing is easier.

>> Office

People with no internet? Saving local copies? Having a license forever instead of Google's implied threat of product killing?

>> XBox

This will probably be replaced by GamePass in the future, looking at current trends, but there is a set of people who just want to have it easy, buy a thing, and have compatible games for 5/6 years.

>> Azure

It's one the largest clouds by market cap, second to AWS, so yeah, people are using it.

>> VS Code

Open source text editor, easily extensible, works everywhere, gets frequent updates, what more could you want? You mixed it with Visual studio, which is another beast on its own.
it won't work at protecting against law enforcement. if they want you, they will find a way.
imagine thinking this was a good idea
> I found the vast majority of my computer science courses a waste of time, stuff I could have learned by myself. But the electronics stuff was very useful as I had access to labs and equipment I wouldn't of otherwise had.

As another point of view, my university courses were useful to someone who had jsut tried it out the spring before their freshman year. It introduced me to concepts and put me against (at the time) difficult problems that I could tackle along side my peers. My Data Structure and Alg class was the most useful since it allowed me to restructure the way I way I saw CS as a whole. The things I learn now are entirely structured based on how I learn CS and would not be the same had I learned it on my own.
Things wrong (maybe not exhaustive):

- x-axis ordered right-to-left

- inconsistent scale in x-axis

- y-axis values that “tell the story “ are all within the margin of error (ie is there even a story?)

- y-axis doesn’t start at 0.0

- brick wall background ticks don’t appear to relate to y-axis

Aesthetic, but:

- useless area shading and random opacity changes (unless this is a photo of a screen?)

Also the story is itself nothing. Apart from basically all the data laying in the MOE, the increase comes from the anomalous year: of course crime went up after covid. Did it go up higher than previous years? This chart couldn’t tell you.
Then you are limiting what people can do with their money 2 inflating stock prices of giant companies. What if I want to invest in a friend's business or buy a rental property. Are you saying it should be illegal for me to do that with my IRA?
Previous AMA here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19881673

Quick skim and comparing with the OP article, the only concrete takeaway I get is shareholders that hold shares longer potentially have more voting power in your system? Good for founders, potentially (and ironically) bad for the company in the longterm.

I don't have to labor the point on this site that a few successful exits had founder CEO's that needed to be removed by investors/shareholders.
The difference is also that the investments your mom or your neighbor put into their Roth IRA are going to be publicly traded companies and similar. Thiel, an accredited investor and startup founder, tweaked his salary to be low enough for a Roth and sold himself shares of his own company at a very low price to put into his white glove managed Roth IRA.

The average person does not have the ability to do this.
According to this chart [1] showing the inflation adjusted minimum wage over the years, it should be closer to $11 to match the dollar value it typically had most of the years it was in place.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Ti...
Oleksandr was developing this heavily in 2016 when I first encountered Statebuilder. And he kept adding things.

Maybe he will get a new burst of inspiration if you share your feedback to him. :)

What I have been impressed with most is the webGL rendering. Have been really neat every time he has shown me his newest prototype.