skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Both wage growth and inflation are unusually high

Lots of people talking about housing bubbles and such. There's no burst coming or if there is any dip it's going to be small.

Instead we are going to have inflation take off.

USA is running about 5% inflation. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

The central bank 'balance' is not balanced by any intention. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/central-bank-bala...
In fact the Fed is bankrupt, very bankrupt.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0

A ton of money is being printed. The USA was bankrupt in 2009, and they sure know it.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1

400% increase? LOL? This can be clawed back, it's not set it stone.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2

This is showing what is set it stone. About 24% is coming in the next year or 2 and ~40% locked in for the near future.

Worse yet, if the fed doesnt claw back the money, that 40% will go much higher. 10-15% interest rates are coming.

What's so unusual about high inflation? The US government printed nearly 400% more money to keep the bond market from collapsing just like all other countries. The consequence of this was known at the time, major inflation.
> Besides, what are you going to do when your expensive rig and its cargo drives to the shoulder in the middle of the desert with a software issue?

Same thing truckers do today: call a local towing/repair company to come fix it. There are mechanics everywhere who can deal with large trucks, all they need is a way to get paid.
Well, I'm not sure UBI really solves the issue. Also, replacing labour with machines is not really the problem here; agriculture and industry still require lots of people, it's just that those sectors aren't the ones making the profits. The profits are going to software and finance, but we still need the agriculture and industry to run, and they still need lots of people.
Found this on their YouTube channel:

How is Novi related to Facebook?
https://youtu.be/mqhPoS8HfpE
>seems to

That's not how proofs work.
good for you. your mindset is only working to the advantage of your employer (maybe i should say pimp). no one else in our industry.

in our program we had to work in team on projects besides doing our own. maybe you went to a shitty program.
Good. Fuck people who make normalize theft and dishonesty.
Ask HN: What would you do with an army of assistants?
With Facebook taking a lot of heat regarding the negative effects of social media, it made me think of this thought experiment.

Mark Z. decides to prove the positive benefit of using his platform, so he invites 1000+ volunteers with varying skills, resources, locations, etc to swarm around ideas and get stuff done that is a combination of cool, fun, and interesting. It could be online, IRL, or a combination.

You get randomly selected to submit the first project idea to the group. What would you have them do?
I agree the solution is to pay more - that would also reduce the level effort being expended to bypass regulations by independent drivers. The problem is the independent drivers are squeezed between the logistics companies and the regulations. They need to form a union to get both better pay and better implemented regulations - but that’s difficult the way the market for their services has been evolved to break them down into individual contractors.
And then, when you go back to add the abstractions, they'll say you're "wasting time refactoring," ignoring the time saved at the start of the process.
I get your point but I guess I fail to see how more obscure syntax at the time of composition helps someone understand something should be immutable. If I'm mutating inputs in a functional programming code base, syntax probably isn't the problem.

edit: wasn't to isn't
Android 12
Been talking to some rationalists about "future of humanity" and religion. Your comment touches on both. This might be relevant:

If there's no life after death, and we're doomed to eternal oblivion, wouldn't it be worth creating a life which feels fulfilled before entering the oblivion? And if our consciousness doesn't survive us, shouldn't we ensure that some good part of us survives for much longer than us? These would be my questions in light of a world which is showing itself to not be governed by any supernatural force (as far as I can tell).
The best target to make an example of is the one you caught.
Thanks! Expanded list:

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28784207 - Oct 2021 (1 comment)

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980003 - April 2020 (36 comments)

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013751 - Jan 2020 (76 comments)

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119029 - Aug 2015 (23 comments)
Wut? Who cares how many % agree. You could find a bunch of losers, give each $100 - okay, make that a $100K research grant - and get 100% of studies that agree on whatever you want.

The problem is there's no cost effective way to change global temperatures. That's all.
I mean, no? PA provides some interfaces through ALSA, but that's really not the same architecture change as re-implementing the whole thing but providing the same ABI. PA is also objectively terrible and that's one of the motivations for writing pipewire.

Seems to me like it's not rocket surgery to develop an X server that uses the Wayland compositor. It's just another video card at that point. We have way more complex things that work, so proposing that it won't work is not that interesting.

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
Exactly, a wage is the price of the labor to perform a specific job and inflation has an effect on all prices, which includes wages.
When to Raise Seed?
I have no retention but 5-10 users and a fully functional MVP

Should I try to raise a seed round?

I have seen companies raise seed when they have no MVP and just an idea and then companies who raise seed

what are you guys's thoughts?
Sounds fascinating.

Tools nowadays are so cumbersome it’s so easy to misconfigure them.

Thanks for sharing
Same happened to me except I didn't send any ID or pictures or anything. I just said I guess I'm done with FB, then got an email saying my account was unlocked about 2 months later.

I don't think FB actually has a fraud system outside of "wait a long time" so its not worth it to hackers.
> I initially feel outraged against Google for their practices, but then I see a comment about how this is just regurgitated news.

These two issues developed independently.

One issue is that the site carries the (ostensibly low quality) content that Google rewards with search rankings.

The other is that Youtube/Google embraces copyright enforcement that heavily favors legacy copyright interests - and that enabled ContentID to become an easily/safely wielded instrument of censorship and abuse (a scenario the tech community repeatedly warned us about).
In that case, it is still the problem of the approach that Qt has chosen.

With macOS or Gnome, even apps from 90's that were newer updated, will have proper scale. They might be blurry (macOS upscales using nearest neighbor so it is pixelated, Gnome uses bilinear, so it is blurry instead), but they will be correct size.

The Qt approach works only for apps, that do the special Qt dance.
I did that as a teenager, because I had stable routes (to/from school at roughly the same times). As an adult, I maintain awareness of the sun's position and keep following/avoiding the shadows on hot/cold days, sometimes crossing the street back and forth or in advance of a shade I'd like to take/avoid.

It's almost an automatic process, but it has a visual perception component - on hot days, the lit side looks "too bright" to me, and on cold days, the shaded side looks "too dark" - so I take the side that looks "just right".
Also: https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/welcome-to-novi/
This is an argument of the 'wtf happend in 1971' thesis. I think however, there is another way of looking at it: by treating company profits and employee compensation as obeying a sort of conservation law. So if companies are hoarding profits that would go to workers, then this would be reflected in rising shareholder equity, so if employees invest their wages in stocks, the productivity-compensation gap is lessened. Indeed, the gap between productivity and wages began widening a lot in the early 80s, when the bull market began.
It's going to depend on the country, and exactly what you dig up (bones is going to be different than gold coins). But in the US, dig up a gold bowl in your backyard? You'd do well to contact a museum or something, but it's yours.
Did the low interest rate benefit the workers much? Maybe the home owners, corporations and investors more?
The “Google Silicon” team gives us a tour of the Pixel 6’s Tensor SoC
you can just ask for projects they worked on and look at their code and discuss that.

also, you can’t bribe anyone at universities where i’m from.
Running tests frequently is not a problem. Not knowing what the code will do is.
Now I wonder why they chose to use cuts rather than a slightly different thread form with a larger leak path.
"...much shorter we probably wouldn't exist"

Reckon that stands to reason, same goes for the physical constants, c, µ, ε, α, etc.

But why remains the question.
I'm a midlevel dev. I think my company range for the level is about $75k-110k. It seems to be consistent with others in the area. There could be higher ones, but I don't see many mid level postings, especially with salary info. The vast majority are senior postings. Glassdoor says $85k is pretty average/common for a mid level in my area with 5+ years experience and a masters.
First thing I noticed. Why, for goodness’ sake?
with your attitude everyone would still be shoveling shit somewhere in a coal mine.
Well you can’t exactly defraud yourself, can you?
If I don't add a brace, I'll get an immediate error that something doesn't add up.

If I mess up indentation, the program will carry on as if nothing had happened.
There's truth to that, but I also find that if I can't name something chances are that what I'm writing isn't as sensibly structured as it could be. I would rather solve these problems by creating new scopes than to effectively strip away names in favor of a chain of generic function calls.
Depending on what you mean by a few years ago (perhaps five?), you might just need to re-curate your subs. Communities hit big problems once they get too big that are fundamentally hard to manage. Drop your big communities and try to find the replacement that's much smaller
Note that a lot of these alarming studies/articles focus on sperm count while this is only one of the 3 important factors for healthy sperm. The others being motility and shape. I dont know if count is disproportionately more important than the other 2 though.
CapRover – a simple way to Self-host apps
This was exactly what I was thinking. Shouldn't the real point to this be we need to make this illegal across the board. It doesn't seem like it would have suddenly made more sense if Netflix got the kickback.
In a long-lost age, the internet used to be for fun. In 2006 the guys in our dorm made a Facebook account for the decorative plastic pumpkin that we drank beer out of.
Why is this whole thread dead? Just because of the blatant appearance of astroturf or what?
Bad career choice. I do believe that within 10 years, trucks will be computer driven.
Building feedback loops, such as the framework Joseph Jude suggests, is incredibly useful for learning faster and appreciating your progress. It's so easy to let inertia lead the way for us. Be mindful of how you use your energy and time. It goes by fast.
EID readers are notorious difficult to get working properly, especially on non-standard platforms like linux/mac.

The smartphone app has significantly improved the user experience and can rely on biometric functionality, SMS and other verifications.

Overall, I think it's worth the risk if it's sufficiently defended cyber-security wise
The docs have a bit more on it [1]. The $$ is really just a dollar quoted string[2], you can use any sort of string in there, but dollar quoting just makes it a lot easier to read.

On your other question, not right now, but if it's something you want, file a github issue, it's something we've thought a bit about and it gets hairy pretty quickly, but also increases the power of these things dramatically. We'll probably do something with it, but it may be a little while and we may let this stuff bake for a bit first...

[1]: https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/how-to-guides/...
[2]:https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/dollar-quoted-string-cons...
I mean if you're developing/testing for AIX you're gonna have to buy/find a vendor that licenses POWER8. I feel like we've forgotten that running software on commodity hardware is the exception rather than the rule for the bulk of CS history.
Why Ethereum Is Undervalued
Anyone have suggestions for S3 alternatives for storing many files sized 50-500mb each? They are mostly long audio files and there is an external index as well.
I can’t find the OpenDNS citation — could you post a link? I would be super disappointed to find out that the founder of OpenDNS was involved in this sort of behavior.
I killed all the booster comments. We tell YC startups not to do that. All startups, of course, but especially YC startups.

Sometimes it happens inadvertently (e.g. users find out about the thread and rush in to 'help'), but obviously we want the discussion here to be substantive.
>> 1. Significant amounts of people cheated during college, and if asked probably wouldn't even identify their behavior as cheating.

>Unless you have some real data backing this up, you can't claim this is true.

As a nitpick, you should be able to claim whatever you want. But besides that... from my experience in college (and as a TA for an intro class) I tend to agree with the sentiment that a significant amount of people cheat. It doesn't mean MOST people cheat, it's just "significant". I remember one week where 30 of our students (10-20% of the class) pasted an answer from Stack Overflow word-for-word. One student went so far as to put a sheet of looseleaf over their friend's paper, and trace every symbol by hand.
Cheaper and 3X Faster Parallel Model Inference with Ray Serve
This is exactly my problem. I have to support Windows (a locked down corporate version) and Linux.
Yes, lots of people have at least some of their photos only stored on FB and have no backups, so FB ends up being their de facto "photo backup service".

Obviously you should routinely backup your data, yet here we are. Last year I noticed that most of the photo albums I shared on FB over the years just disappeared. They were not hidden by some app setting, nor temporarily unavailable, the data dump FB offers has no trace they even ever existed. The data was gone. I reported the issue but never got any answer. Thankfully I had the original photos on my old desktop. So when your data may randomly vanish, do backups, just my two cents.
I'm 33. I've been doing this for a total of a few weeks now. The way it came about was quite accidental: I was working for a B2B finance startup, and quite happy with it -- it's a laid back, chill job. The nice thing about finance is that no one's heart is in finance. Mostly that manifests itself as finance companies becoming obsessed with money and taking advantage of their coworkers. This company took a different approach -- everyone is focused on work/life balance above all else.

My heart happens to be in ML. So when an ML opportunity came along, I went for it. Things worked out. They offered a full time salary position for equivalent to what I was already making. I told them "I understand that you're not able to afford market rate for ML engineers -- let me know if that changes! In the meantime, why not do a contract for that rate and see how it goes?"

They protested in the usual way, but the problem was, they needed me. Both companies need me, and I'm effective at both.

I make roughly three times the average SV startup salary. I don't get sick days, which is the only part that sucks. But -- regret? You overestimate how much work this actually is.

The best part is the work itself. I get to design some cool-ass banking infrastructure while also doing some cool-ass ML work. And the whole reason I'm doing all of this is so that my wife and I can have a baby, because IVF in America is $40k.

(I realized one day that if I worked as hard as I could -- or in my case, "at all" -- it wouldn't take that long to save up $40k.)

I would say it's a worse deal to gamble your life on startup equity in exchange for below market rate. The fact is, if you're someone who can get a job at FAANG in terms of skill level, you're underpaid at a startup, in exchange for the small chance of getting rich later on. I'd rather "sell my equity now" and take full market rate, as it were. But I don't want to work at FAANG, because FAANG comes with a lot of baggage that doesn't exist at startups -- which is the whole reason people take startup jobs.
> And if our consciousness doesn't survive us, shouldn't we ensure that some good part of us survives for much longer than us?

Why? When you are dead you won’t care.
I just assumed this is how business was done at that level. For example in the health insurance industry "Producers" receive all shorts of benefits from carriers to push their plans onto clients.
I looked into Jackson Structured Programming a few years ago (bought a couple of books). I found it a useful model for thinking a software. In particular, Jackson's inductive approach to reasoning about ordinary loops has stuck with me.

And of course, who does'nt love a programming paradigm with simple diagrams and example code in COBOL? You can't beat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming
I had actually bought a bunch of M1 Minis that I set up as a video encoding farm. The organization I set it up for moved on, so now I'm sitting with 8 M1 minis. 1 of them is my daily driver, but the other 7 are just sitting there.

I contemplated setting up a rental service for them (something like $40-50/mo?) since I have symmetric 2 gbps fiber to my office, but I just haven't prioritized.

Are people actually interested enough for this to really be worth it?
I guess I'll just throw myself to the wolves here by saying that I'm generally in favor of a pipe operator, I believe avoiding unnecessary temporary variables is a very valuable thing for the reasonability of code, and that while I'd prefer F# style pipes plus a clean partial application syntax/approach, I can certainly live with the Hack style pipes and agree that F# would be very unidiomatic in the absence of better partial application.

Furthermore, I'm continually astounded by the naysayers who are opposed to language evolution as a general principle. I read these sort of objections all the time and all I can think is that if we took the "change almost nothing about our tools - think of the juniors!" approach advocated by these folks, we'd still be writing C and the industry would be an order of magnitude smaller than it is. Software development is a unique field of endeavor where it is remarkably easy to build and then use new tools, and while it does lead to lots of stressful change, it also leads to our discipline accomplishing more and more as the years pass. Thankfully, the silent majority seems to understand this just fine, which is why despite the tenor of the conversation around these (and other) parts, our tools do continue to get better and better as the years go by.
Metal was released in 2014. Vulkan was released in 2016.

It makes no sense for them up-root their entire OS and ecosystem just to switch to Vulkan. Microsoft has no interest either.
I'm getting a 500 from the get go on store.google.com

what a joke!
I agree. The pundits for the past decade have been predicting a day of reckoning ,deflation , prices falling ,etc. Not going to happen. It's more of a flight to quality of the top asset classes, such as bay Area homes, biggest of tech firms (such as Amazon and Tesla), biggest and safest of currencies and investments (such as treasuries and the US dollar). Monetary policy is playing a role, but I think also this 'flight to quality' trend is as well.
Had a project once where 70% or so of the 8 month runtime was de/serialization. 800gb or so data wad and 16gb of ram; all messily multiply interlinked and not even the indexes would fit into ram. it sucked.

but the architecture that imposed meat we were surprisingly resilient to power outages.
Vantage Launches Kubernetes Support
Agree. We already essentially do this with social security.
In one of the first interviews I conducted (for my first ever startup), I interviewed a guy who had enough of his corporate job. He was a java architect, studying for some of those SC... whatever exams. He was also a graduate of my alma mater. Same univeristy, same faculty. I thought he would be great.

I was new to this, but had looked up two coding quizes. The first one was really simple, I found it a bit embarrassing during the first few interviews. Now that was the interview, with this guy, when I decided that I'll never state that I'll give them two coding challenges and that the first one is really simple. Because the dude wasn't able to solve it, at all. And when I say simple, I mean simple. My co-founder, who sat over all those interviews and who really had nothing to do with programming, did already understand the problem and solution after a few rounds of interviews.

So while I do think that getting CS (or similar) degree does indeed give you a lot it's by no means a proof that someone can actually write code.
I was expecting this to be a new account.

Did you buy this handle?
Exactly. So, no harm to any real people.
Looking at it with the eye of someone who did a lot of metal working: the driving of the sheet was done expertly and given how old it is what amazes me is how well some of the detail stands out and how detailed it is. What an amazing object.
Nobody seems to mention EMF

RF-EMF exposure negatively affects sperm quality.

The influence of direct mobile phone radiation on sperm quality

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4074720/

The Effects of Exposure to Low Frequency
Electromagnetic Fields on Male Fertility

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/reproductiveresearchcenter/do...

Effect of electromagnetic field exposure on the reproductive system

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6240172/#:~:tex....

and many more...
"yes" is incomplete.

A complete answer would be something like "yes, and sometimes a circle-jerk is exactly what you need."
I checked your profile hoping maybe you had a quality onboarding compliance content startup. Maybe one day...
if you can graduate a CS program without hands on experience your program is broken
macOS Monterey – 10.25
Why would you assume that they drive home? Regardless, there would hypothetically be massive differences such as distance and size of vehicle. Both are bad.
> Providing a quick way to stress test the model is definitely a double edge sword.

I hope you don’t second guess or regret the choice to make the announcement so accessible. It’s a really good thing to have scientific communication accurate and accessible, especially when those two things go together.