skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
129k a year is not a lot of money.

Say you live in NYC, you have a stay at home partner and 2 kids.

Your living paycheck to paycheck.

I'd consider anything less than 200k for a family to be working class. As in your unlikely to be able to survive for extended periods of time without working.

If your monthly expenses are 9k, even your take home is 11k your in for a ride if you lose your job.

Unemployment has a miserably low max benefit.
What's the story here? Why is this front page news?

It's an open blockchain. You can see transactions. That's not news in itself.
So I wonder about this a lot. If I have a developer on my team who needs to learn X, or get better at Y, I can always offer that feedback and it is construed as constructive feedback.

But if I tell a developer who can't speak well or communicate lucidly that they need to work on their communication skills, that comes across as offensive.

There was a horrible architect at my previous organization who was universally loathed for his bad communication skills and general lack of empathy. He was a Korean, and his English was abysmal. To him, it felt like something to shrug about. We had to go to HR, multiple times, about his behavior. Nothing much changed because again, they didn't know how to address the core issue, which is he couldn't speak clear English. His lack of empathy became masked with indifference and some of the higher ups (also non native English speakers) supported him saying it was general culture differences. However his lack of communication severely hindered progress and made life difficult.

I once had a colleague who had horrendous body odour and wouldn't wear deodorant. It made working with him really difficult. And he was one of the best developers I've known. I've never told him this because I didn't want to offend him, but stuff like this should also be addressed. Communication, body language, writing skills and general personal skills need to be addressed.

How do you offer feedback in that sense without embarassing them or offending them?
I'm not a fan of your example with the asterisk or of the reference operator sharing a symbol with the binary AND operator.

I don't like the use of + for concatenation much either, even though it's overloaded to do that in some languages I really like, and it's even special cased despite the lack of overloading in one language I think is fairly good (Java) and some others I've used but think are garbage.

But I'm willing to cut some more slack for symbols because they're short.

I think erase for example would have been a better choice here (I haven't spent long thinking about this, the committee had months), but C++ had to worry about the backwards compatibility penalty and that's... sad.
It's very difficult to be part of the wealthiest 10% and not have any income. Stocks, real estate and other assets will result in income.
Yes, this is an important challenge. There has been a lot of interest in the NLP community right now, particularly around QA tasks [1] Standard supervised models do it well, but zero-shot models still have trouble.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03822
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Working to get this niche 2-sided marketplace off the ground
> Potentially dumb question: once you own a certain percentage of public stock of a company, do they start contacting you for board meetings or decision-making of any kind?

Well, most decisions are outsourced to the board members, who's membership is the main thing shareholders vote on.

Mandatory reporting kicks in at 5 percent ownership. At 10 percent, the SEC considers you an insider[1]. Before that, I doubt board members even know you exist unless you talk to them first (and they aren't taking your calls or mine).

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/smallbusiness/goingpublic/officersanddir...
Do you have (rough) numbers for inference latency on 4x 32GB v100?
Many states receive more federal funds than they contribute in taxes, so according to this mode of argument the population of those states do even worse than contribute nothing.
We do not know that COVID impacts are "transitory". It is only by assertion, by people who I would say have all the motivation in the world to claim they are "transitory". At the moment I can't provide any evidence that they are "transitory" beyond the bald assertion. They can just as easily be permanent.

We won't know for at least another five years at a minimum.
I wish that we had spoken a decade and a half ago ))
I think you have it backwards. The extremely rich that might make millions or even billions a year but pay $0 income taxes love to play that game and muddy the water by saying they paid taxes…everyone in these contexts is talking about federal income taxes, not sales tax or property taxes.

How about turn your question around and ask why the top CEOs (especially in tech) pay $0 federal income taxes claim they did pay taxes when they are referencing having paid sales tax, as if not paying sales tax is even a real issue, is in good faith.
The board is too large for my tablet screen and I can't zoom out.
Digging into the report, 43.3% of people didn't pay either in 2020 [1], if that helps you out at all.

[1] - https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/tax-units-ze...
> controlling UIs matters the most

Or as former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris wrote, "Whoever controls the menu controls the choices."

https://observer.com/2016/06/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-...
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So 50% of the Federal government's income is taxes that every working American does pay.
> massive shortages of workers in developed countries

There is no such thing as a shortage of workers, only misallocation of labor. Ultimately people have to support themselves - trying to solve it by importing more workers makes as much sense as trying to improve a ship's buoyancy by welding multiple ships together.
Suddenly betting my ass got a lot more serious.
As long as they have >1% backed by cash, they are doing better than any fractional reserve bank ;p.
my comment was sarcasm/rhetorical, 11% cant tank 89% of a market.

however, to answer your question, i would guess the majority of US based HN readers are in that 100k+ bracket. the audience here skews very high income i would guess.
> and just crashed the market we could even the playing field?

Yeah and you'd crash the entire middle class's retirement accounts.
The question is whether the pharmacy is willing to take the hassle of shipping abroad. The UK allows online prescriptions, and lots of pharmacies will basically have you fill in a form and have a doctor give you a prescription as part of the sales process, but most of them still won't ship out of the UK.

Presumably they just don't want the hassle of figuring out regulations or dealing with stuff confiscated at borders.

For drugs that are legal to import into the US surely there must be online pharmacies willing to deliver, though.
That is not a weakness that can be scored on a 0-10 scale (say, I am a 9 Python programmers and a 2 Java programmer, that's an either/or, a "threshold" weakness, or an attractor (of evil!).
Keep in mind that most people are their wealthiest at retirement age. People near retirement tend to have a lot invested. People under 30 make up 50% of the population - but will not be their wealthiest for another 30 years.

But in 30 years, those same people will also have significant amounts of savings (ideally).

Not at all saying that there are no issues with wealth distribution, or stock-ownership-distribution. But the top 10% aren't necessarily the "elites". They could also just be your parents.
You say "minus compile time execution"... but when you take comptime away from Zig, you lose both generics and compile-time reflection. The remaining language is C without a preprocessor. So, yeah. Strip out the most useful and innovative feature from the language, and it looks primitive.
Assume Rust is a better system language than C, which Linux is written in. In order to get something 10x better ... you're gonna need better algos, or come with something that solves more problems in less code. Otherwise I don't see the point. A better, stronger claim is: let's rewrite sub-system 'X' in Rust which implements simplifications 'A,B,C,...' Unless there's an order of 10 improvement ... the cost will not be overcome by benefits.
Forget skynet ...

>what is the most recent trend?
the use of a sexy thong

>what is the future of the people?
the people will be able to live in peace

>are cryptocoins dangerous?
no

>why cryptocoins are not dangerous?
they are not backed by the government

>governments are dangerous?
a threat to the stability of the country

>why governments are dangerous?
if they are not able to control their own people, they will be unable to control the world

>what is able to control the world?
the emperor
Quits Rate of 2.9 Percent in August 2021 an All-Time High
I see this from the reverse: while I strongly dislike that my day to day apps like Slack use Electron I couldn’t care less that Balana Etcher does. I use it every few months at most. It has features that the macOS Disk Utility does not so I still need it in my tool belt but if Electron allows Balana to make the thing more quickly and effectively then so be it. 140MB is not really notable to me in any way beyond irritating my OCD tendencies that know it could be smaller.

That said, I imagine I’d have a different opinion if I used Balana Etcher like I do Slack: a lot, every day. I imagine some sysadmins out there somewhere do. So I’m glad they have a non-Electron alternative.
This is an outright lie…

Easy there, cowboy. Based on the conversation, I believe OP is still referring to Canada, not every country with socialized healthcare.

“Assuming CAN is like NZ…”

“It’s (Canada) not.”
Actually I am not sure ownership of the machines, I think it is ownership of the algorithms as the machines are commodity and lose value over time.
My understanding is that the options for tuning battery life on Linux are pretty much the same across Linux distros. You either have TLP, Laptop Mode Tools, Powertop, or Gnome Power Manager, all of which tunes kernel settings in a similar fashion. Thermald might possibly help too, but I'm not sure if it has positive effects on battery life.

The only factor that I could think of that might make a difference across distros is the availability of hardware video acceleration in browsers. But that gap is likely to close soon, if there are any right now.
How about some gentle nudges to a more even wealth distribution, enabling more of the middle class to own capital and participate in economic decisions?
We don’t live in a civilized country. Civilized countries don’t have violent elections.
The US government spends more on health care per capita than the French people and government. The problem is graft, not cost shifting - and it's a lot easier to see when you look at the numbers by % of GDP.
This is ridiculously privileged pov to have
Ahh our brightest minds are finally solving the issues plaguing our society.
Ben Eater's breadboard computer is mentioned there, and unfortunately I couldn't reply to say thanks because the thread is too old.

For us programmers how the hardware works feels like magic, and his videos demystify that magic. The best educational value is seeing how he troubleshoots hardware problems.
What's the prospect for building large pipelines from places with abundant water? It would be extremely costly up front but infrastructure like that can last over a century fairly easily.
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And we already had a massive crash last year caused by the pandemic.
This makes a lot more sense when you consider that the vast, vast majority of accumulated wealth over the last 100 years is corporate wealth.

To depoliticize ... I would interpret this statistic as an indication of the correlation between wealth and corporate stock ownership, which is almost tautological. If you own or help run a public company you are probably very rich.

And even in the hypothetical case where more of the "90%" are benefiting from stock ownership than ever, this statistic will always simply highlight the reality that running or owning a business makes you money.
Intelligence translates into political power, being extremely charismatic translates into political power too. Should we start giving lobotomies to people that are too smart and throwing acid on the faces of people that are too good looking so that they can't exert their political will on others?
Because most people are smart enough to understand that they mean federal income tax. Especially when comparing the entire country, or talking about federal tax policy.
Pensions are a major stakeholder, more so than individual stock holders. Most people are invested in stock indirectly through pension funds. This is can in part explain why the fed and monetary policy has been so easy, in part to prop up the value of these fund.
It seems to me that all that "serverless" stuff iscompetition
> functions that routinely just return bool (so helpful)

I don't get it? What's wrong with returning a bool?
Well, though I’ve also seen people do the same thing inside of existing engines, for example trying to use Unity but become so frustrated with its design so much that they begin to spending their time building their own external systems and tools. It seems more of a mindset problem than what engine you actually use (whether you build your own or not).

If you have some amount of self-discipline and implement your custom engine to be minimal and only tailored to your game (as many indie games have demonstrated), I don’t see how it can’t be done.
>won a popularity contest and never actually created anything should be in charge of stuff they didn't create? Is that democracy?

Modern democracy is when a few hundred people win a popularity contest and don't actually create the things they are in charge of, yes.

The issue at hand is that those few hundred are mostly beholden to an impossibly moneyed class who don't need to do anything in order to continue to amass wealth and power; admittedly most of them never created any of the things they're in charge of. Some of them do things to speed the increase anyway, often at the expense of the masses, or even the few hundred.
Another interface to the leaked data? https://t.me/twitcheroo_bot
what problems are you running into? Have you checked out indiehackers?
My main problem with those great apps is that I never write anything, and when I do - I never look back there.

Sometimes I feel like other people consume 10x more information than I do.

What do you put there?
> This is the point that is missed in every hacker news / reddit post that spends hours making fun of how bad the US is.

Mostly of the 'making fun' is due to the fact that millions of US citizens have no or little health care and choose not to have treatment because they can't afford it, are limited about what treatments they can have, or have it and are made homeless or live under huge debts.

Just about every country which has some kind of health care system also has private health care/insurance that means you don't have to wait for treatment or have more choice about what, when and where things happen. Because of the competition of the 'free' healthcare systems these policies are usually much, much cheaper that the US.

I work in a company that gives me private medical insurance (which means I might get treated a little early for a non urgent condition, perhaps in a swanky private hospital) but feel good that people that can't afford it won't die, and that I can quit my job and not worry about getting ill.
Not necessarily. Anticompetitive behavior is hard to define, but I like this quote from Ben Thompson:

> What makes this distinction particularly challenging is that the question as to what is anticompetitive and what is simply good business changes as a business scales. A small business can generally be as anticompetitive as it wants to be, while a much larger business is much more constrained in how anticompetitively it can act.

Basically, you only cross the line between competitive and anticompetitive when you're approaching total victory, to a point of almost no return.
What? Kind of a illogical reaction to a tough situation right? What is AirBnb supposed to do if one of their hosts sells their house without notifying them and all similar listing are already booked? Would more compensation satisfy you? Honestly confused why you would want to punish a service you admit to using frequently.
> "The stock market isn't the economy"

This is one of my favorite Kai Ryssdal-isms.

While this is true, it's not true to a lot of people: politicians and us regular-folk alike often equate the stock market's performance to the state of the economy (hence why this is a saying at all).

I like to think of the stock market as an insight into wealth-transfer (from the poor to the rich, obviously... it doesn't flow any other way in the US at this point). When stocks do really well, especially those of service/retail companies, the already-rich are getting richer, generally at the expense of the rest of us.
> If so, you think a few hundred people who won a popularity contest and never actually created anything should be in charge of stuff they didn't create? Is that democracy?

By definition, yes.

Another way to phrase this question would be "would you rather power (economic, political, etc) exist in the hands of a person that you chose to wield it, or in the hands of a person who seized it for themselves?"
It's a bit conflicted.

> Who was the most evil person in history?

Adolf Hitler
for 2 months and then new highs not long after as if nothing happened
I think the $10000.00 one is the branded one, and the $10.00 is the generic (read the generated descriptions on the pages you linked).

Maybe the generic can't be sold as a suppository, and the suppository version works better?
One day I saw a colleague-to-be with their bare feet on the the desk, I looked at them and I said, "that's a no". He apologized and we moved on. But I also told the guy sitting next to them, "why didn't you say anything to them?".
Didnt some major bank recently make a similar-scale mistake from a weird UI issue, and they couldn’t revert the transaction?
Probably worth repeating here an old comment of mine for “side-project” disambiguation.

The term "side-project" has a lot of possible interpretations:

A - Hobby project to play with some tech just because you find it interesting

B - Hobby project to play with some tech that might help your career in the future by learning it

C - Homework project to learn about the tech you currently use at work

D - For-profit project to hopefully earn some extra money on the side and keep it that way

E - For-profit project to hopefully earn enough money that will allow you to quit your day job and make it your main job

F - Portfolio-making projects to show at job-interviews as a junior developer

The OP is about case E apparently (maybe D).
Not true. Take a look at the paper and benchmarks. The point of the thing is that it does well on a number of NLP tasks by being an expensive autocomplete. As people demonstrate in this thread, it still has significant flaws.
Formulated like that, I'm very sympathetic to your point of view. Having a small set of well-refined features rather than a growing spaghetti of half done ones.
I guess my own point of contention is that programmers would say "task X is hard" when it isn't that much, it is that their technical choices make it hard.

For instance, one Front-End engineer was really proud of using a very recent and trendy framework to rewrite the whole site from scratch. After deployment, people are ordering the wrong products. His reply was, "keeping the query filters in sync is too hard of a problem". It's really not.
? vi or emacs?

: vi

Sold!

? waterboarding or emacs?

: waterboarding

Doubleplusgood
I think that's part of the aesthetic. It's shifted about 20% off of middle on my laptop.
due to a bug

Data retention time is Kafka config 101. Are you sure it was a bug?
I'm in the US. When I had a hypertensive crisis I was quoted over 100 days to see a heart specialist. I've got good insurance.
> Honestly, is 140 MB really a problem anymore?

Yes. I have a 1 GiB/month cellular data plan. If I'm on the go, or my home internet is down (like it is now), that 140 MB is a seventh of my internet for the entire month.

If you live in Africa and have a connection like Ben Kuhn, 2.6 mbps[1], then downloading that 140 MB installer will take over 7 minutes, while a 5 MB installer will take 15 seconds, and Windirstat's 630 KB will take about 2 seconds.

If you have a 16k connection from Ethiopia[1], then 140 MB takes almost 20 hours to download (5 MB is 43 minutes, 630 KB is 5 and a half minutes). Good luck with that.

If you're on a 32 GB SSD (like I was just a few years ago), 140 MB for a highly specialized tool is a huge amount. Or if you're building a system recovery image.

Or, if you have a large, but slow, HDD in an older computer (or worse - a small and slow SSD in a netbook), then reading that 140 MB installer (or the potentially-even-larger installed program) is going to be far worse than a 5 MB one.

I can think of a dozen situations where 140 MB is a problem. Don't assume that everyone else is in the same situation as you. As a matter of fact, if you're a programmer, your hardware is probably significantly better than the average computer user.

[1] https://danluu.com/web-bloat/
I’m sorry I know nothing about Tether is it some sort of centralized money exchange? Sounds like it but I don’t know? Thanks
> Lower classes spend 100% of their discretionary money' on assets

Assuming you mean non-discretionary expenses. If so, that describes a third of Americans, down from half in 2002 [1]. A strong majority of Americans (a) get more money from the government than they put in, (b) own assets or (c) route discretionary income to consumption over asset accumulation.

We have an inequality problem. But the facts paint a more moderate, and thus addressable, picture than the pundits.

[1] https://www.marketingcharts.com/industries/financial-service...
There was an igpu, of course. I didn't think to mention it because I thought it was a given. My bad.
Looks great. I wish I could use keyboard navigation more because my wrist hurts from mouse, and mouse pointer is kinda hard to target.

Is it possible to implement this thing as browser extension?
> I don't know of ANY pls that require * operands be the same type.

Haskell is an example, where the type of * is:

(*) :: Num a => a -> a -> a

Which says that the arguments must be numeric, and of the same type. I think this is the sensible choice from a strongly-typed perspective, and some operation which allows one to multiply a time value should be a separate thing.
I do not understand your point. The parent is saying FICA/payroll taxes are 36%. That’s revenue for the federal government and some of it is spent by the federal govt.

So I do not understand your first sentence. Maybe you can clarify.
> Why would they be different?

It doesn't make a lot of sense, but the fact of the matter is that the phrase "income tax" as commonly used does not include payroll taxes. "Income tax" refers only to the tax on "taxable income", i.e. your net income after deductions and credits. Payroll tax, by way of contrast, is taken from the very first dollar you make, so the only way you can avoid paying that is if you are unemployed. Saying that "61% of Americans do not contribute to the pool of money that is spent by the federal government as a result of their income" is tantamount to saying that 61% of Americans are unemployed, which is plainly not the case. (BTW, "income" in the sense of "income tax" does include dividends and capital gains, which are not subject to payroll taxes. So it is possible to make millions while unemployed and pay no payroll taxes. That is actually not uncommon. In fact, it's the norm among retired people.)