skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who the heck is buying these VMs that cost 5x real hardware?

Right. This has already been tried in the "game streaming" business. There have been multiple services where you rent a PC in "the cloud" by the hour, or for some number of hours per month. Either they cost too much, and fail for lack of customers, or they are underpriced as a loss leader, and get shut down after losing money. Google Stadia and NVidia Cloud Gaming are currently live, but Stadia is likely to join Google's list of discontinued products, and NVidia's offering involves being kicked off if you stay connected too long.
The prevailing view in the hacker community is to coddle and make safe havens for fascists? When did that happen?
Disenfranchise: deprive of a right or privilege

What right or privilege are you saying people have with regards to money?
Medicare eligibility is certainly an important milestone in the US. One can retire earlier but doing so would add another significant non-optional cost.
Amazing breakfast options are something I miss about Asia in general. Relatively light, and doesn't give you the itis. Any recommendations of breakfast fare from other regions? I'm always on the lookout for good breakfast food, even though I rarely wake up for breakfast time, which meant missing out when I travel. North American breakfast I prefer for brunch, it doesn't "feel" like breakfast food, maybe that's why there's so many all day breakfast joints. I'm also impressed by how far western continental breakfast spread around the world via hotels. I wish there was more AYCE global breakfast options out there.
I asked him a simple question, not to rant for 15 minutes straight.

He got extremely worked up over a simple question is the point I was trying to make.

>Slipping and falling could cause a life-changing injury that no amount of money can undo,

Which is easily prevented in a number of ways in the middle of a Canadian winter.

Like preparing for a coming storm by buying what you need to survive it beforehand, or wearing ice grips on your shoes if you insist on venturing out into what is sure to be a slippy-step every 10 feet or so.

Further reading about slips and falling on ice in Canada if you're interested [0]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/legal-pointers-on-sl...
Thanks for linking to the interesting story, but it doesn’t agree with your comment. Wikipedia says there are only 36 clumps of needles left in orbit.
pragmatically, the mandatory vaccinations seem to be predicated on the following assumptions:

1. Asymptomatic transmission is the primary vector and just as dangerous as being in proximity to a sick individual - has this been confirmed or refuted? Obviously-sick people aren't going to be in restaurants and bars so they can be taken out of the equation entirely. The virus has a normal lifecycle like all others: incubation, infestation and recovery, and during the 2nd phase people should be showing symptoms that our human instincts would urge us to isolate from and ostracize against.

2. The human body cannot become immune to a strain of this virus by recovering from it naturally - most people have had the virus by now, and if the virus is omnipresent, the non-vaccinated should keep becoming re-infected and in a perpetual state of illness - greatly multiplying their chances of death. I don't see the fatality data supporting this hypothesis, so natural recovery immunity is probably serving some protective function.
Cement has the advantage of being a small fraction of the weight and volume of the finished product. You source your water, sand and gravel closer to the work site but ship in your cement, I think you’re still in pretty good shape from an overall footprint standpoint.

Of course they are now electrolytically strip mining the entire ocean floor…
Cambridge Analytica got their data by obtaining consent from users to install their app on the FB platform, claiming that it was for academic use. The difference here is that this group is using a browser extension, but in both cases the methodology is to collect data from Facebook’s API on behalf of the user.

Facebook also goes after other browser extensions that scrape data, not just researchers: https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-sues-two-chrome-exten...
> Whenever you see a wall being made of red clay bricks, that’s because the builder wants it to look nice.

There is a scene in Penny Dreadful (Which is set in a fictionalized Victorian London) where a character laments all the brick buildings that are being built, replacing wood buildings that have "character", because wood "holds its history" unlike bricks which are all the same, forever.

The main appeal of bricks is essentially nostalgic, similar to the appeal of low resolution 8-bit graphics. We call one 'traditional' and the other 'retro' but those labels are arbitrary.
Check out Sophie and Bruce's new book on LiveView: https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liv...
> How much income will you need...?

I tried to get my own answer for this question in a couple of ways (retired 5 years ago, age 62 so not early).

First, I tracked my expenses, but didn't have a planned budget. I wanted to know how much I spent and where it went. I kept monthly and yearly summaries on a spreadsheet and made charts to better visualize trends and variability. I think just tracking expenses was encouragement to live modestly and contribute regularly to savings: information not coercion.

Second, I tracked potential future income/benefits. I have an employer retirement plan and an IRA plan. Before retirement, I used the retirement plan's calculators to estimate that benefit. For my IRA I used a 4% withdrawal estimate.

Third, I assumed my expense totals would be the same in retirement. I might spend less on commuting, work clothes, etc., but more on medical care, vacation travel, and so on. I estimated housing costs for either renting or having a mortgage. (Ended up selling the house when I retired, moving and renting for 3 years, then buying a new place and getting a small mortgage for that.)

Over the short term, assumptions of continuity are reasonable. As you point out, the longer term is much more of a question mark. So, fourth, I tried to make allowances for uncertainties and contingencies. How much padding or margin did I want to be comfortable? Perhaps 10% to 20% more income than one's average expenses would feel comfortable? Perhaps a contingency plan for part-time work?

All these numbers will be in current dollars, so they will be comparable. What I discovered when running my numbers (after learning about an opportunity to buy some retirement plan benefits with money I had saved in a 401-K) was that I could then afford to retire. I can't predict the future either, but felt comfortable with the uncertainties I could see.

Following one's own situation roughly once a year, one can see how different conditions and assumptions give different results. Generally, the less one spends and the more savings one has, the more flexible one can be in choosing jobs, places to live, lifestyle, and so on.
What We Lost That Day
Well I don't treat them like garbage. I treat them like human beings but sometimes I wonder about how a 40 year old person ended up working in a fast food place.

I know there are lots of reasons and many of them are outside of the control of the person.

I should really change my statement to "Learn some skills whether a 4 year university degree or technical / vocational / community college so you don't end up working fast food or retail."

Why is that work so bad? The low pay is the main reason. You can learn the skills required in a few hours or days. I feel like their managers and employers treat them worse than the customers.

I am absolutely in favor for more education and financial assistance for higher education. The low end jobs are the first to be automated away. Fast food and warehouse robots are going to get more popular and I already use the self checkout line 80% of the time.

Jobs for people without specialized skills are going to get rarer in the future.
There is a discussion going on in the ERE forums at the moment that accuses the leanfire types of being somewhat profligate.

People love to divide themselves into tribes.
This is a good time to throw out a recommendation for Bletchley Park and the Computer History Museum, two museums next door to each other and not far from Luton Airport outside London. Bletchley Park is for the masses and focuses a lot on the history, the people and the impact on the war. The Computer History Museum has tours of working replicas of the codebreaking machines and very knowledgeable docents who love talking with a fellow geek. It's a must for anyone in our industry with some historical inklings.
You have an 8core laptop with 32gig RAM for $700? That's not super common though, I think usually you'd spend more like $2500-$3000k for it. Count in the reduced maintenance and hardware support + having your whole stuff in one place.. Might make sense if you are not super low on money
And 2020. Down 30%
Same reason high-powered graphics boards are used today for cryptocurrency - high throughput calculations.
You create a new account to spam the thread with accusations, and links to biased articles (see my comment above).

Any actual valid examples of exaggerated claims?

> and the documentation page can't be bothered to put the most basic of padding in it. Why even release publicly?

Well it hasn't been released. It's pre-alpha software, like the GitHub page says. Why would I not have it up for testing?
And that’s why Apple forces it, because we all know you won’t add it willingly.
Define “aged badly”.
You're focused very hard on the WFH part, which is actually totally irrelevant to me. When someone's offshore, you don't even really think about the context from which they're working. They could've been in an office, or they could've been in a bed, I didn't know/didn't care.

> In the past the outsourced teams were clearly second class teams behind the primary local teams.

Outsourced teams were second class because of the frequency they didn't deliver/delivered something poorly/needed almost full-time guidance and direction. I would put outsourced help in a similar category to taking on a Junior dev, fwiw. It has its place, but you can't get mad at someone put in a position that was never meant to succeed if they end up failing.
Oracle Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform
in smalltalk you are always running inside of a live system, so if you made a mistake its immediate that it happened right then and there, but in obj-c its a code-build-run environment so the place you changed and the state you have to progress to to exercise that change are far away and you might not catch it until runtime / in the field.
> The evidence is the replacement of the system originally named “capitalism” by its critics, under pressure from its critics, throughout the developed world by the modern mixed economy in the decades of the mid-20th Century, with the modern mixed economy, which afforded the working masses a better quality of life for less labor directly by restraining the property relationships defining capitalism.

I’m profoundly disinterested in semantic arguments or moving goalposts.

> The question isn’t whether you can do better in terms of quality of life for workers with less labor than capitalism, the question is whether there is a limit to how far you can move away from capitalism while continuing to improve on that.

Fair enough, but even then the answer by all appearances is “not very”. In other words, no system has done better than those of modern first world countries.
I don't get it, is that file's function bodies just comments now? Or does /* */ not mean a comment in V?
Even if your house is paid off, depending on the property, you may still have significant costs to budget for. I have an old house and a large property and between property tax, insurance, utilities, and maintenance (both routine and occasional large), I'm probably a good $1K/month.
Also, this is the original model for the online business models that HN users often complain about.

Short term interest free loans? And all I have to do is give you a constant stream of information about where I am and what I'm buying that you can use to build a profile on me?

And it turns out its not even free, its just baked into the price even if you refuse to be tracked?
There are a few ideas like this floating around and this may be a viable solution for small objects in the future. You might have countries calling you up asking about space warfare concerns though.
The average lawyer salary in the US is $144,230. That seems pretty low for the time and money it costs to get through law school.
> HN commentators are now invited to derail the perennial bloat arguments with constant observations that "At least it's not as bloated as that Lisp interpreter written in Malbolge."

OTOH, the Electron team now has a new KPI. Whoops, did I just say that out loud!
I think this was true 5-10 years ago but having worked at FANGISH companies for over a decade I am starting see older devs come into the company, and also diversity in ethnicity and background which is great. I know my current company which has about as difficult an interview as google doesn't really care about your degree, if you can pass the interview and are not a total a*hole you are hired.
Is it OpenID or OpenID
Connect (OIDC)? (Does anyone still use OpenID?)
When you use a lot of contractor developers, being able to provision out devices for temporary work is powerful. A lot of time is spent provisioning machines, white listing ips, setting up VPNs, and getting the contractor to the point where they can work. In some cases I've seen it take 2 or 3 weeks to get a contractor up and running on a 6 month contract.

Being able to give them credentials to a machine that's ready to go is pretty huge.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Actually, When I reach out to executives, I'm often trying to get the problem permanently fixed. In the instance I cited above, I knew I wasn't the only person that had this problem as I had found complaints on forums of other customers with the same problem that I shared with them. I also did additional research into why the problem happened and provided concrete actionable steps that this executive was best positioned to enact. I was trying to solve it for me and trying to solve it for others by actually contacting the person that had the power to fix it. It was when they tried to pass the buck back to customer support so "they could wash their hands of the problem" that I raised the stakes by demonstrating that I had the will and wherewithal to escalate the issue as far as it needed to go. They eventually implemented a hot fix for the problem. There's still no permanent solution implemented, but at least no other customers are wasting their time and they aren't wasting their money either (as the problem was burning money by shipping goods from Europe to the United States, where US Customs was rejecting the stuff and returning it back to them).
Talk to anyone military who has to deal with young cadets/recruits. They all come with baggage. They all have family commitments. I've know of helicopter parents phoning, even appearing at military bases. Beyond the near-normal prescriptions, young people now have health "preferences" to accommodate. Their definition of "flexible hours" is totally one-sided. Tell them to work through a long weekend and they might cry. As for learning, I have read those studies. It may be true but I also see a trend of young people who cannot read and write properly: university graduates who have trouble reading more than a dozen pages without drifting. Any drill sergeant at West Point would rather train a platoon of 40yos than yet anther crop of phone-addicted teenagers.
I think about how we live in an era of information, not communication, frequently. Have you heard of pol.is or vtaiwan?

https://pol.is/home
https://info.vtaiwan.tw

I have a lot of hope, as well as paranoia, that implementations of semantic analysis in those direct referendum/republic programs will generate more rational collective action.
Ping @merocle on Twitter—the board's design is not 100% final, and there may be a few other features he could cram in (I've already thought of moving at least the serial UART connection to the front...).
The difference is making something you believe in, have vetted, and genuinely believe others would like a piece of. I’m in the middle of fundraising right now. A year ago the idea of getting others money sounded crazy, but now I’m just excited to share what I’m working on and half the investors I speak to want to use the product too.

Everyone wants to get in on a good investment. If you’re building a good investment, you’re doing them a favor by letting them invest.
Of course. IBKR has lower rates and approves more easily, therefore they will be much more trigger happy. CS timidly emailed about potentially discussing margin rate adjustments, IBKR can liquidate your positions for instantaneous margin violations without warning or a margin call. The assumption is your leveraged position is hedged well enough to protect against untimely margin calls, and the cost of hedging is roughly equivalent to the nominal margin rate savings they offer.
Thanks for reading. Interesting idea! I did have this thought myself at some point and went and checked on some other narrated podcasts and found they kept it all under one label, but I can see how that could be confusing. Maybe I'll try that for the next one.
Then you increase the GDP, the nominal measure of the economy. This is not rocket science.

If person A mines aluminum and sells it to person B for $10.

And person B sells person A wheat for $5.

And then person A sells person B bread for $8, and person B sells a metal box to A for $12.

And this is the entirety of the economic activity in country X, then country X's economy is $35 in size. You can sell the same 'stuff' back and forth.

A more contrived example. Suppose person A makes water bottles. He sells to person b for $10. Then person A goes on vacation. At a concession stand run by person B, person A needs water, which he buys from person B for $4 each. Person B has added value to the same 'stuff' person A sold him simply by moving it. The 'good' being sold by person B is simply the transport of the good sold by person A, which is not subject to the same limitations as number of particles. There are many ways in which things can be moved or repositioned to add value.
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This comment is a perfect example of what Andrew was talking about here:

> Andrew: It’s funny how it just kind of changes course as the language gets taken more and more seriously. And now, all the comments are even starting to shift to kind of like the philosophy of memory safety and whether Zig is immoral.

I'd suggest you go listen to the podcast or at least read the "Zig Is Immoral and Unsafe" section of the transcript as well as the following one.
17th century Europe was quite modern with for example long distance power transmission. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/01/mechanical-transmi...

The spinning wheel similarly had already transformed transformed the making of cloth and rope. By the 1700’s cottage industries where setup to leverage the free time of village workers on an industrial scale. Communities would specialize based on local resources including transportation networks.

Also, rivers where the medieval equivalent of highways and railroads. A 500 mile journey by waterways was generally cheaper than a 50 mile trip by land.
> reward and fulfillment.

I get more reward and fulfillment from my hobbies and personal relationships than I'll ever get from creating another CRUD app for ${boring_business}. Half effort leaves me more energy for those things, and half effort still gives me more than enough experience and talking points to nail my next interview and demonstrate value to hiring managers.

> In the event you strike out on your own as a freelancer or your own business

I have no intentions to do this, but if I ever did, then as my own boss my performance would be directly tied to what I earn. So yes, I'd have a much different approach.
Tropico has one of the funniest "speech generators" ever.

* Praise a faction (ex: Religious, Academic, Military)

* Chastise a faction

* Praise a superpower

* Acknowledge an issue.

* Make a promise

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For example:

* Praise the Military

* Blame the Religious

* Praise the USA

* Acknowledge housing is a problem.

* Promise better housing.

Then the voice actor comes out and says the lines associated with your selection. Paraphrasing:

My people of Tropico! I wish to congratulate the Military for their outstanding service. But the Religious among us are holding us back from progress. The USA has given us a great amount of aid and we thank them for it. Our growth has caused a lack of housing in some areas. If you elect me again, I promise to fix our housing problem.

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EDIT: The speech has a big effect on the election.

Every faction has a rival faction. Praising the Military pisses off the liberals. Blaming the Religious encourages the Academics. Praising the USA pisses off your communists, but pleases your capitalists.

Acknowledging a problem lowers a citizen's "needs penalty" in the election. (If everyone's housing score is low, then acknowledging the problem reduces their penalty with regards to the election/vote).

Promising to fix a problem is even stronger than acknowledging a problem, but has repercussions in the next election. You need to have had substantial progress in 10 years otherwise the people will remember.
"Seems like little to do with graphics directly, and more to do with being able to manage large amounts of data"

And since we are visual beings, managing large amounts of data is best done in a graphical way. But it is not easy to do that right. You can create super beautiful looking, but total missleading visualisations.
The ability to provide for their basic needs.
This is very evident in historical media where medieval people are portrayed as wearing burlap sacks and misshapen clumps of fur inside plain brown plaster castles rather than wearing brocade, silks, or brightly died wool inside colorfully-painted palaces or churches. To some extent you have to meet the audience where they are.
From the research article:

Page 2:

> On day 6, 34 out of 47 (72%) patients in the ivermectin arm reached the endpoint, compared to 21/ 42 (50%) in the placebo arm (OR 2·62; 95% CI: 1·09-6·31).

Page 21:

> 57 were assigned to Ivermectin group,
7 had SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR with Ct
value >35 in the two first tests,
3 were lost for follow up,
47 were eligible for analysis

> 59 were assigned to Placebo group,
14 had SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR with Ct
value >35 in the two first tests,
3 were lost for follow up,
42 were eligible for analysis

Note that "Ct >35" means that the viral charge was so low that after amplifying the virus 35 times they weren't able to detect it. If we add them to the people with a good outcome, we get:

41 out of 54 (76%) patients in the ivermectin arm reached the "endpoint", compared to 35 out of 56 (61%) in the placebo arm.

And this is probably not statistically significant any more.
I think the phrasing is a little off; the way I’ve heard it is that most Nobel winners had done the majority of their research before they were 30. It just takes a few decades for their contributions to the field to become apparent.
Very true. When I was doing PhD in pure maths I had random people explain to me that a PhD would not necessarily give me an advantage in the job market. Like I would come to do a PhD without figuring that out.
The right to buy goods/services in exchange for that money, of course! /s
I think the thing we are missing here is... What was the capacity to begin with? If they have capacity for 1000 machines... that's not particularly impressive, nor does it show that it's really popular. The fact that they're leaving the numbers out makes me think this is a hype piece to make everybody think it's more popular than it is... but I dunno.