skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend Reddit's Personal Finance subreddit and this item called the "Prime Directive". Try old.reddit.com .

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics

401ks are taxed (either a Roth or Traditional 401k) but are tax advantaged.

Please feel free to contact me directly. Happy to help. It'll be difficult to get to $1mm in purchasing power of today's value in 10 years without saving around $50,000/year or getting extremely lucky.
Sure, and go back to having to reprint all the menus every time you want to change something or update prices, needing extras for when menus get destroyed, paying people to wipe menus down if you have them laminated, etc.

As much as I prefer paper menus, I don't think the restaurants that have switched are going to go back to it. Would have better luck pressuring them to have less shit electronic menus.
There's also asbestos siding which is common on older houses.
What amazes me is that on HN I hear more about The Thing than about the eponymous invention of its engineer: the Theremin[1].

The first electronic music instrument with mass appeal, it had a magical aspect to it that no instrument has matched since: you play the Theremin without touching it. It senses your body through two antennas, which control pitch and volume.

While the Thing is a neat invention, by its nature, its impact on technology was small.

The Theremin's impact was worldwide. It is what brought electronic music instruments into the mainstream in the 1920s. The iconic synthesizer engineer Bob Moog started his career building Theremins (Moog Music is still the leading world maker of Theremins).

Notoriously difficult to play, the Theremin has been mastered by the very few. You might remember its sound as the chilling, high-pitched howl prominent in the sci-fi and horror movies of the 1950s, or for that whistling melody in Beach Boys' Good Vibrations. The instrument's potential has been unexplored since then, due to how difficult it is to play, and our ability to get that tone from synthesizers.

If you want to try out a Theremin today, you should try the digital reincarnation of the instrument: the Theremini[2], made by Moog Music (keeping true to their roots!), which addresses the UX issues with variable quantization (like having frets, think guitar vs. violin).

And if you want to know how it can sound like in, listen to Pamela Krustin's playful performance[3] - it's nothing like what people did with it back in the day.

Going back to The Thing, the saddest part of it was the cost. To make The Thing, the USSR forced Leon Theremin to abandon his lustrous career (...and wife) in the United States, and return to work behind the Iron Curtain, in secret. Nobody knew what has happened to him for decades.

Leon's living until the 1990s was the only thing that prevented him dying in obscurity; the West has found out about him, and he got to re-unite with his old pals in NYC.

But one is only left to imagine what we could've had if Leon could stay in the US and work alongside Don Buchla, Bog Moog, Dave Smith, Tom Oberheim, and other pioneers that carried the torch of electronic sound production after Leon was whisked away.

Instead, all we have is a cool spy story, and a small Wikipedia entry.

Tack it onto the costs of The Cold War.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

[2]https://www.moogmusic.com/products/etherwave-theremins/there...

[3]https://www.ted.com/talks/pamelia_kurstin_the_untouchable_mu...
Did you miss OpenAI part /s

As FAQ mentions, They are planning to launch a commercial product so likely not I guess.
socialize or die you fucking nazis
It certainly feels easy to be that cynical about the cause of this, and I've struggled with that cynicism myself, especially with all the exuberant sales talk right now from all the PC manufacturers and retailers.

However, if that were the sole or primary reason for these decisions the timing seems just stupidly way off: During the pandemic year PC hardware had one of its best sales years that many of the several previous years combined. The only thing that stopped/slowed the rapid pace of new hardware sales (to meet increased work-from-home and safe-at-home demands) was all of those sales have directly contributed to a massive semiconductor shortage that is now affecting every other industry.

You would expect Microsoft would be well familiar with this semiconductor shortage because Xbox Series S|X sales are way below expectations because of supply issue. The only thing avoiding a shareholder revolt on those short-term financials is that Sony is experiencing the exact same supply issues. (As are entirely unrelated industries such as the automotive industry.)

"We want to sell a bunch of new PC hardware for Holiday 2021" doesn't make any obvious sense right now given the semiconductor shortage. It might be that Microsoft and their hardware partners are just that myopic and/or think that we've still got 3 and a half months to sort out supply chains to meet a holiday rush?

Obviously cynicism leads to the conclusion that they may just be that short-sighted. On the other hand the arguments that they were doing it for performance and security don't entirely ring hollow. Windows 10 got a ton of flak for how much it slowed down due to mitigations against Spectre/Meltdown attacks, so there is probably at least some high possibility that Microsoft very much wants to try to push processor generations to jump some of the Spectre/Meltdown performance gaps. There's still the possibility that lots of new hardware sales is still a secondary goal or a "side benefit to make the hardware partners happy", of course.
> I'd be inclined to believe that most tech-affluent people are probably OK with QR codes being the norm, in general

Everyone I know, "tech-affluent" and tech-savvy alike, hate them. Next time you go out for a meal with a large group, ask for physical menus and gauge the reaction of those around you - likely that most of them will ask for one too.
Afaik these devices do have a physical reset pinhole button.
Probably partly because literally half the market is passive investors who dont react to any news.
This is genuinely sad. Is there nothing you can do to prise them away from their monitors? Maybe you need to find some new friends too?
1. Yes.

2. No. (Unless you somehow con them to or forge them guaranteeing your debt)

Curious how a lender will issue credit to a child without any additional checks. Not hard to check if someone is under the age of 18 and correlate against SSN. Incentives matter.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft_in_the_United_S...
I'm going to go off on a limb and say for at least 90% of kids, it is easier to obtain alcohol than heroin or meth. That is not a very controversial assumption.
forEach in react/jsx, are you sure?
There exists a physical reset pinhole button on these devices.
> P. G. Wodehouse would probably get my vote for best English writer of the 20th century, if I had to choose.

The guy who wrote about a hapless nobleman and his butler is a better writer than Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, George MacDonald Fraser, or John Le Carre?
You don't want to kick the can down to the floating point standard. Design for deterministic behavior. Find the edge cases, go over it with others and explicitly address the edge case issues so that they always behave as expected.
pg runs a business that depends on young people wanting to work their asses off for startups.

IMHO the real "why" of this article is attracting the right people for Y Combinator.
Anyone tried this on any sort of numeric computation? Numpy, Julia, Pandas, R, whatever?

I definitely see the utility in the linked screencast. But I am left to wonder whether this effectiveness is really a symptom of the extreme propensity for boilerplate code that seems to come with anything web-related.
Have you actually been to anywhere that has refused to give you a paper menu? Everywhere I’ve been lately has either clearly had a stack of menus up front that you can grab on the way to your table or the waitstaff has given us (typically fewer than are in our party) paper menus. Typically one or two of us will use the paper menu and the rest will use the digital menu.

Payment by QR on the receipt, however, is absolutely fantastic. A place near me uses Toast and it just opens an app clip, has me review my receipt, touch Apple Pay, and I’m done. I’ve always felt uncomfortable giving my server full access to my debit card details just to pay for a meal.
I wear a seatbelt because I understand what will happen if I don't, not because of a law.

That's a strawman, but I'll roll with it. Yep, totally fine with it (although I have not used any illegal drugs). Mostly because there are massive amounts of people currently using prohibited drugs. Why not study and make known the risks instead of hopelessly trying to directly control everyone's actions?

At a higher level, I do not believe in any authority's ability to consistently produce a net benefit over long periods of time by deciding what substances are legal. I do however think that the markets will figure it out pretty quickly.
FTA

> One thing I know is that if you want to do great things, you'll have to work very hard

This is such a narrow definition of "great things" that it is useless. Great things in PG's eyes maybe, but I hope no one's life goal is to impress him.

> "I never took a day off in my twenties," he said. "Not one."

That quote makes me sick to my stomach.
Disingenuous appeal to the rigor of science followed by several token anecdotes and thick sarcasm.

Reactionary reverse cancel culture hit piece, from the usual tabloid.
I always bang on about "Software literacy" but I do wonder how i would deal with this if it was suggesting text for me while I was writing - emails, reports, novels.

I suspect that for drudgery or work stuff I would happily take some help with typing, but I am not sure (beta access please!) if I would want if for my novel, or my sales copy.

I am (optimistically) hoping that my novel has my voice - my unique fingerprint of tone and vocab.

And I wonder if my software has similar tone. A much more restricted syntax of course, but my choice to use meta programming here, an API design there. I may be over thinking it.
My interpretation of the GitHub TOS section D4 would give give GitHub the right to parse your code and/or make incedental copies regardless of what your license states.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

This is the same reason it doesn’t matter if you put up a license that forbids GitHub from including you in backups or the search index.
This is because the word "TV" is essentially useless. It means different things to so many different people, and often "TV" is the word people use when they want to be critical of entertainment.

I can't remember the last time I watched a TV show through a cable provider. But I can tell you the last time I watched a YouTube series.

I'm betting PG only sees one of those as "TV".
> we can't automate the math, yet

This exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving
> React code was simple enough that it wasn't hard to understand and trace trough, or profile

Interestingly enough, this was the opposite of my experience. For my next project I used Mithril because it was far easier for me to debug, trace, and profile through.

> That it was too slow for you, I suspect, comes down how you wrote and structured your application and not necessarily React.

I had on the order of 100 inputs with two-way binding. My code was structured along the lines of the existing react tutorial of the day (maybe 10ish years ago?). Per suggestions of members of the react community, I restructured it to use ImmutableJS to allow for faster VDOM diffing, which did cause a noticeable speedup, but was still dog slow.
>This is complete and utter nonsense. Were you programming seriously before React?

Indeed I was.

>There were like 50 popular frameworks all competing with each other and no one framework dominated. React has completely taken over because it provided a dramatically better developer experience and solved a lot of hard and very real problems.

I'm not saying React isn't a good framework, it is perfectly nice, though I think you're overstating it. AngularJS was a perfectly fine framework as well, and that was out long before React.

>Dismissing Svelt's success/failure by saying all framework success is because of fads is an excuse and, if you are part of the Svelt community

I'm not part of Svelt's community. I haven't actually used Svelt at all. I barely know about it. But I've been around for a while. Why certain frameworks go viral and others do not, is not always based on merit. I'll buy the argument that Svelt doesn't have enough of a benefit over React ... it also came out a few years later and doesn't have Facebook's marketing weight behind it either. Does that mean React is the best thing ever? Eh, it's alright. Having done everything from Flash/Flex/Starling, to Silverlight, to Backbone, to AngularJS, to React, I actually get more excited about State management patterns than widget overlays with some declarative patterns and data-biding. By the way, when it comes to ergonomics of building complex SPAs, I think we're just hitting the place that Flash/Flex was 15 years ago in Web Development.
> Have you gone to a restaurant with your boomer parents during the pandemic?

Have you gone to a restaurant with your boomer parents before the pandemic? They still pull out their phone to use the flashlight or even take photos of the menu so they can zoom in.

This piece is bizarre in that they say they don't like something, give a BUNCH of reasons why other people might like it, then just dismiss it entirely because they don't like it.
> Not something many people say about work! Maybe when the work is truly meaningful (I wouldn’t know).

The vagueness of "work" in this article is (IMO) a feature, and not a bug. Raising your children can be great work, to your own point. You can't half-ass raising your kids, as you well know, and it sounds like you get the most purpose and fulfillment from doing that. What PG appears to be arguing is that, whether you're doing a "great" job of it depends on: 1) how hard you work on raising your kids, 2) your natural ability, and 3) effort — and I trust that you satisfy all 3 of those preconditions, as a dad.

> The notion that people need to work through their 20s for this unknown future prize is silly and wasteful

First of all, to call it an "unknown future prize" is a bit of a mischaracterization. If someone were to argue that one ought to spill their lives into their career with no well-defined end goal, then I'd agree that it's silly and wasteful. But if you actually have a clear view of what a desired end goal looks like (it could be anything: a house with a yard in the Bay Area, enough money to retire early, etc etc), it can be entirely reasonable to defer gratification. Keep in mind that in the experiment, the child knows that there's a second marshmallow coming if they wait. Adults need to know what their second marshmallow is before delaying the first one.

Second of all, I don't think it's fair to make such a sweeping generalization for how other people ought to live their lives. The neat thing about PG's post is that it's sufficiently abstract that it can apply to anyone, regardless of what they consider "great work".
There are far more current precedents that apply here, and they do not trend in Github's favor -- as I noted previously, Williams v. Gaye (9th Cir. 2017) is going to be very interesting in this case. I am sure several people in Microsoft's legal department set parameters on the model training and that they felt that they were standing on solid ground, but I am also sure that there are a few associate professors in various law schools around the country who are salivating at the opportunity to take a run against this and make a name for themselves.
New Milvus Release Notes
Matt Levine: Facebook Is Big but Maybe Not a Monopoly
Life can add obstacles, not sure that's basis to dismiss the point.
Oh no! Should I start downloading videos?
> Fetch API would make it vastly shorter (`data = await (await fetch('/my/url')).json()`—as an aside, suffix await like Rust settled on is so much nicer: `data = fetch('/my/url').await.json().await`);

const data = await fetch('/my/url').then(r => r.json());
Managers already won, no matter what transpires.

That's what they don't want you to understand.

I got nothing against managers as people. But as a role, it is highly person dependent and most people are utterly bad at it, same as teaching.
The Goldilocks Supernova
I think it was:

- The Angular dependency injection stuff seemed rather complicated compared with React pragmatism. Using React became heavier by the time Redux and other boilerplatish practices became widespread, but React had already gained adoption by then, and you could still get into it on tiny projects without fancy state management.

- The VDOM had articles saying how much faster it was than everything else, so it gained a reputation for speed compared with the other client-side templating alternatives at the time. Angular 1 had a reputation for being slow due to scanning all state variables on every refresh. Really React wasn't fast at everything, but fast at enough things to get that reputation. People who really understood DOM differential updates already knew how to do it faster than VDOM, either by hand or with smarter differential template compilers, but implementations weren't common. Marko and Svelte came along later.

- After years of being trained that separating HTML templates and code was the right thing to do for better engineering, preferably in separate files, it turns out that was annoying and lots of people really liked inlining the dynamic parts of HTML directly into code.
>An ideology, on the other hand, might redefine baldness as “ideas about baldness that produce and normalize baldness.” Believers might claim that all heads are bald regardless of the presence of long and luxurious hair. In fact, hair might be evidence of a refusal to accept one's baldness.
Sounds great. I'm a bad typist, anything that makes me type less (vim, voice assistant, completion) is a big win to me
How is this political?
Does this solve the right problem? Getting some code on the page has rarely been the expensive part of building something. Indeed, some long-ago experience with code generators suggests that making it easy to create code makes many problems worse down the line.
I haven’t used docker in production. I guess it is used for k8s all around?
I've been using TabNine for a couple years – constantly impresses me, especially how quickly it picks up new patterns. I wouldn't say it's doing my job for me, but definitely saves me a lot of time.
Agreed, and I had one as a teen. She is still young, but loves to communicate. Good to keep this idea in mind.
Also: what happens when a nontrivial portion of public code out there is ML-generated? How will it deal with feedback effects?
> I don't think you can say that with that kind of certainty.

well, any classic (in SM sense) QFT will produce positive vacuum energy density which translates into negative pressure. P = -E
This technology should be available to everyone whose work contributed to it's development to use as they see fit. Free of Microsoft's tendrils.

The absolute gall of Microsoft claiming fair use to gate keep knowledge of millions of minds...
> Automation applies policy evenly.

Automation applies policy based on it's inputs/systems.

If someone went out of their way to insure/test that it applies policy evenly, there's a decent chance it will. If not, it'll apply policy based on whatever it's inputs/systems are.
Anyone with an IQ over 100 should be banned from white collar work

Anyone with a hot-or-not rating over 5 should be banned from the movies

Anyone with Charisma character points over 5 should be banned from leadership
We already know the answer to this because free markets really don’t provide the poor with shelter or food or any other critical support.
> Firstly you're drawing an unwarranted distinction between physicalism and materialism.

Let's not argue the definition of words then. The distinction I'm drawing is whether said philosophy believes that higher-order models of reality at any given level can be derived from understanding the smallest parts. The "yes" side, I'm calling materialism, but you could also call reductivism or perhaps objectivism. The "no" side, I'll call emergentism or constructivism. Neither side implies a supernatural aspect to reality.

> Materialism is not a theory of physics, it's a theory of the relationship between physics and various philosophical questions. Asserting that it's somehow incompatible with quantum mechanics is just silly.

Only if you're relying on the equivalence of materialism and physicalism. Quantum mechanics violated many ideas considered to be ground truth at the time, including locality and deterministic certainty. I'm far from an expert in this area, but my understanding is that the thing I'm calling materialism is dependent on the idea of the universe as a lego-style composition, and that quantum mechanics violate this concept. But this view is also espoused by Fritjof Capra, a particle physicist. Perhaps somebody should tell him that it's silly!
> (highly paid execs...)

EDX's IRS Form 990 for 2020 shows five executive making over $800k [1]

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...
NFT mania hits Hollywood: ‘It’s found money’
Probably not as shallow as not taking vacations so your boss can get some marginal % richer.
But they at least make the case that a larger study is warranted.
This is true of a lot of things. It also appears in athletics. Most competitors get very anxious. (Even Mike Tyson in his prime!) but once you’re in the zone, the anxiety goes away.

We are all nervous in job interviews. The best ones flow once they start.
Any tips for getting started with that? I found out about the up work etc sites but heard you should avoid them. Is that true?
Firefox Mobile
I'm amazed to see how positive the overall response is to this idea. Almost as if programmers think that writing programs is the worst part of the job and ready to be automated away.

As someone more aligned with the Dijkstra perspective, this seems to me like one of the single worst ideas I've ever seen in this domain.

We already have IDEs and other tools leading to an increase in boilerplate and the acceptance of it because they make it easier to manage. I can only imagine what kinds of codebases a product like this could lead to. Someone will produce 5000 lines of code in a day for a new feature, but only read 2000 of those lines. Folks that still expect you to only check in code you understand and can explain will become a minority.

I wonder how long it will be until someone sets up the rest of the feedback loop and starts putting up github projects made of nothing but code from this tool, and it can start to feed on itself.

Cargo-cult programming has always been a problem, but now we're explicitly building tools for it.
Reinforced concrete is easier to maintain indefinitely than wood, because it's easier to seal against moisture, especially in harsh environments. Just because there are plenty of poorly built/maintained reinforced concrete structures, doesn't mean that it can't be built for longevity.
On a related note: people like criticizing Telegram because its encryption is "not industry standard". Except Telegram has existed for 8 years now, and MTProto encryption still hasn't been compromised.