skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The approach here of inferring US causation by comparing policy responses and outcomes in other countries is potentially useful tool for understanding what is going on, but it seems to ignore known facts about the actual nature of the LFPR decline in the US. Particularly, it ignores that more than half of the labor force reduction during the pandemic (through the second quarter of 2021) was through excess (above age-based trend) retirements.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...
Around Thanksgiving, I drove through Portland on my way up to Washington and then back to Cali. Even with the roads dry and snow-free, traffic was a frickin' nightmare. Even so, Portlanders should feel good that traffic there is still better than driving through Seattle.
Completely random question: Are you from California? The reason I ask is that you said "The 5".

Edit: To those who said that's a SoCal thing: I Know. I got razzed endlessly when I moved to Reno from the Palm Springs area for saying "The 395, The 80", which are the only two freeways in the region lol.
The capex vs opex argument in cloud is more about having better transparency on your infra costs on a monthly/quarterly/yearly basis. With DCs you need to make large upfront purchases for todays and the next 3 years needs. If you under estimate you’ll be unable to grow further. If you over estimate you’ll be stuck with a bunch of unused infra.

Now say you want to spin up a new feature/product. Can you accurately forecast the compute needs? How difficult would it be to get a large capex PO out through your internal orgs on the unreleased non-revenue functionality.

Compare that to cloud where you pay for what you need. Calculating marginal cost is much easier, and securing budget on an ongoing basis to pay for clouds opex is also much easier, as you can easily show to finance the profit margins.
I also find it very useful to be able to "import" code snippets from files into your latex document, so you get proper versioning, autocompletion with syntax highlighting, can structure files into a tree, etc.
How did you setup your contributor license agreement (assuming you have one in order to incorporate external contributions that you want to dual license). Just a GitHub PR template where they have to check a box to confirm they agree ?
Make them want it
I respectfully, and vehemently disagree. Informing someone that they may be drinking too much of their company's Kool-Aid, without knowing what is in it, is a moral obligation.

Despicable that you present this as a bannable offense.
Good. The invisible hand if the market will cull the companies too weak to provide living wages.
Mesos was Betamax, Kube is VHS, Nomad is laserdisc
In the end, this is one of the fundamental issues with this new approach to the car market: manufacturers aren't satisfied with providing final goods anymore, and consumers are forced to buy cars as services.

Creating a car that inevitably becomes unusable, unless you essentially spend money enough to buy a mid sized sedan, that's genius from a market perspective, not so much for consumers.
> such compensation is reasonably possible to a moderately competent software developer working for big companies in the United States

The author made $625k in compensation this year. Even for large US tech companies, that's far above the "moderately competent" level. According to levels.fyi, this is approximately what a Principal SWE makes at Amazon, the third highest compensation level listed.
I loved Altered Carbon the book, but really couldn't get into the TV adaptation either.

I could never put my finger on exactly why they felt so different.... there is an energy to the book that isnt there in the TV.
When a name fits a project so well, you have to wonder whether they thought of the name first, and that dictated the project concept. Either way, awesome.
Desmond Tutu was critical of Israeli government policy in the treatment of Palestinian people and even earlier when Israel maintained friendly relations with the apartheid regime in South Africa. This is also the same man who criticised Arab nations for refusing to recognise Israel as a sovereign state, sympathised with the historical atrocities committed against Jewish people and condemned violence from both parties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.

There is no irony in celebrating the life of a man who universally condemned oppression and called for a peaceful resolution to one of the most complex conflicts of modern times.
> I'm not going to say Communism failed because they didn't have machine learning, but I have a feeling that a more equitable and humane economy is possible if all the variables in the equation are tuned right.

You might enjoy the book Red Plenty, which talks about a group of mathematicians who wanted to optimize the soviet economy with linear optimization, but were ultimately stymied by internal corruption and Brezhnevism.
> The best way to challenge insanity is to simply ignore it and move forward without consideration.

That's a tactic to be used in specific circumstances, such as by the Archbishop in a specific, peaceful neighborhood. It's for people who are safe.

For a vulnerable person, it can be very dangerous: violating norms can end in being arrested or lynched - that's what lynchings and oppression are. That is the problem. Civil rights tactics such as lunch-counter sit-ins worked because they were carefully strategized and organized, and many people still got hurt and killed. For example,

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=civil+rights+birmingham+fire+hoses...
I personally use the two respectively as the authors suggest: LaTex if there’s a lot of math, and Word/Google Docs otherwise (I will note that GD actually supports a surprisingly large amount of LaTex syntax in their equation editor; not sure about Word).

However, their suggestion that journals should ban submissions in LaTex seems rather bizarre. It is not the journal’s job to ensure research is done as efficiently as possible.
As the Last I May Know
Hacker News Weekly is linked from nowhere, I guessed the link a few months ago and since then it has been the main way I use Hacker News.

Thanks a lot!
Yes, barely. :) Implications work as the following code:

def f(n):
if is_prime(n):
return not is_even(n)
else:
return True

What is the value of f(6)? True is returned in the else-clause because this is an example of a vacuous truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth
How will anyone know about search, email or GPS navigation? If its word of mouth, isn't this a form of advertising? How will they pay for them without a credit card; which will be issued by a bank that can't advertise them. Does that also rely upon word of mouth? How can a new entrant arrive in the banking industry without being able to advertise its services?

Without advertising new companies can't develop new services because only the existing ones will have customers.
What kind of “normal people communication” specifically are we referring to that isn’t encrypted on the wire?
And they wouldn't open a commercial restaurant on top of their DIY "home food infrastructure".
> Let's say you have a band

The band U2 trained its singer, on-the-job style. Worked out pretty well for the business.
Western OR is the same way. Portland rarely gets snow, so we have basically no snow plows and have to just wait it out. It's also rare that the snow isn't preceded by a lot of rain, so they don't use deicer unless it's dry pavement. We don't do salt on our roads for environmental reasons either. East of the Cascades, the other 2/3 of the state, it's a completely different story.
The full story is told in the video: This is/was a very early, first-generation Tesla Model S. He imported it from the US to Finland before you could buy Teslas in Finland.

The battery began to wear out, so he replaced it with a non-Tesla, third party battery. This was later damaged, and Tesla refused to fix it, both because it had a non-Tesla battery inside it, but also because Finnish service centers are not equipped to repair US specification Teslas.

Why he decided to then blow it up... well that must be a Finnish thing. He did remove the batteries and motors first, though.
It doesn't work like that with cold viruses. You get it as a child and then every year with minimum effect. Maybe at the end of your life when your body and immune system is weak it causes severe disease and/or death.

The same with covid. Once you get several vaccinations and then maybe you get omicron. And then every year another variant and so on. The risk of severe disease and significant lasting side-effects are very minimal. We should not compare them to the current state when our immunity is far from adjusted.
> Want to have ads? Cookie banner.

That's just wrong, you don't need a cookie banner for non-tracking ads.
I am a self-taught software engineer back in 2016. After launching my first SaaS, I realise for me to grow, I need to learn from people way better than me. I manage to find my first software engineering job in 2017 and never look back.

I believe the best way to learn is from people better than you. The problem with small projects is that it never make it to the point where certain skills/practices become important or even critical.

In this spirit, my recommendation is in this order:
1. Get a job. Learn how to work in a team.
2. If for some reasons, this is not possible, watch conference talks especially on those problems faced by big companies, and what do they do to solve it. Learn about this problem, and figure out other ways.
Startups spend way more on staffing than cloud. generally the cloud Premium is less than the cost of a single employee for an early stage startup.

As the startup scales it’s about velocity of product. Spending 10% your time to save 20% on cost is a bad strategy. Instead startups should take that 10% time and invest it into their core product. This would lead to an accelerated timeframe for raising their next funding, which will be much larger than any cost savings. Eventually in the future once growth slows down you can focus on costs to improve profit.

*you still want to ensure your costs grow slower than top line rev.
Perhaps offtopic, but this argumentation style of "So you think XYZ", where XYZ is a complete strawman of what the original post was arguing, is that some new fashion? I don't recall ever seeing it even just a year ago, but these days it seems to be in every other thread on HN.
For some reason, HOMM* games never had any appeal to it, but I've sunk hours in an obscure trading/exploration game Merchant Prince and similarly obscure Hammer of the Gods.

Only recently I've learned, that these games were direct predecessors of HoMM made by the same studio, bridging the gap between earlier King's Bounty (which I also played quite a lot).
I like pencils -- real wooden ones that you need to sharpen. I have a small collection of them in various hardnesses, mostly for note-taking and working out ideas. I'm not an artist; I don't sketch with them, excluding simple flowchart-type diagrams.

They always work, the lines don't fade or bleed, they can write in any position, when you use them up the stub is biodegradable, not a plastic shell that will sit in a landfill for 200 years.

I think pencils for everyday writing and refillable/fountain pens for stuff that really needs to be indelible are the best combination.
When Homebrew was written, neither it nor MacPorts had widespread binary caching by default like they do today.

Homebrew was written to take some shortcuts to reduce compilation time vs. MacPorts at that time. It was also written to be simpler to hack on and package for, since the author found MacPorts harder to work with than he'd have liked.

I think it takes the metaphor too far but I've seen Homebrew fans praise it as making things like repo management accessible to them when they started using Homebrew without prior experience with other package managers. So maybe it's useful.
I was expecting financial advice in the post but there wasn't any. There wasn't much of any substance either, but it sounds like the OP is still young and has some interesting plans to follow-through with.
This is basically what I think of every time it snows in Portland https://youtu.be/EaksWCnHaDM
Since capitalism is imperfect so adding some socialism for the poor as stated is OK, going too far on the socialism side will ruin us all. This is my point.

They're not black and white binary choices, keeping capitalism as the backbone is key. If you really like socialism, welcome to Venezuela.
Fanstratics is a spiritual successor to Heroes of Might and Magic III, it is being developed by the lead game designer of HoMM3. There are some interesting newsletters being published about the game.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter01
Similarly, it can be reasoned from first principles that any other cause of a decreased demand for a currency leads to rising prices. I'm not disregarding one explanation in favour of others, I'm just saying that what I've seen in terms of evidence for the default explanation is far from conclusive as far as I can tell.

More lending in response to inflation does sometimes lead to hyperinflation! That's how little Weimar and his printing press got into such a pickle. But in the presence of other corrective feedback loops, it doesn't have to.
I actually like them limp -- it's sort of like eating a baked potato with your fingers!
What's fundamental what again? There has never been an automobile without expendable, serviceable parts. Sometimes you need new bearings, u-joints, cv-joints, tires, piston rings, catalysts, whatever. Batteries are not different.
Most likely this. It is hard to imagine that covid has disproportional ability to cause lasting side-effects without causing causing severe disease and/or death.
It can be. Apple is very good as it, but it’s another computer with a firmware on the battery, so you need to make sure that it’s not tampered with.
It doesn't follow in the sense of being a formal logical syllogism, but it is nonetheless true. You can learn to cook on electric coils. Millions of people have. You can make both beginner and expert food on them. And Childs' use of them is evidence, but not proof, of this fact.
Thanks and cheers for being nice! Happy holidays to you too - I’m not really that surprised how negative the comments are here, including attacks on me personally it feels like.

If they don’t like it, stay with Gmail, I don’t care. I would just rather live in a world where the internet isn’t controlled by 2 or 3 big companies. Hacking a server for email and making it work like gmail was the aim, and I did it in less than an hour. Some people on here are pissed that I didn’t consider every eventuality, and filtering, and spam and this and that. Fine, but attacks on me as a person reflect more on who you are as a person.

If you don’t like how I wrote or setup the server, do one and make one yourself - or just stay with Gmail
Yes you have indicators. On a Nissan Leaf you can simply count the number of battery bars in the dashboard when fully charged. On the BMW i3, you can find a number in the dashboard if you know how to find it (it's well hidden). On a Tesla, you can usually look at the range when fully charged.

The best is to connect something on the ODB port of the car and collect all the technical values.

You need to remember that the battery temperature can influence a lot.
Which is the next problem. Again, a highly asymmetric relationship between the surveillants and the surveilled people.
I have done it with Linux.
I just ssh in. sidedoor is good if they are behind NAT.

That way you can fix things, install programs, handle updates, etc.
There are tools to share the screen. But usually it is enough to use X Window to run a program on their computer on your own screen.

It is also handy that you can just scp photos, videos etc to their computer.
It would have to be southern Cal. We here in northern cal refer to highways as "5" or "101".
Maybe there should be mandatory when numbers are too high or maybe we should try to educate people to wear a mask when sick. Like it seems they do it in Asia.

I am glad we have FFP2/n95 options.
If you're saying that everyone should/must follow the law in all circumstances, that's an extreme position few people would agree with. This would mean inform on Jews to the Nazis or returning slaves to their owners under the Fugitives Slaves Act, to take an example from a democracy. That's even without considering that many laws are somewhat indeterminate, internally inconsistent or at odds with other laws.

If you're saying that there is an a priori moral presumption that laws should be followed, maybe because they represent (possibly) some sort of societal consensus, than that is a closer question, but it doesn't resolve the question of whether the legal rights of the advertisers ought to, in a moral sense, be respected.

Note though that even the US judiciary doesn't make much of a legal mandate with no penalties attached (see the last Obamacare case to reach SCOTUS).
> Perhaps offtopic, but this argumentation style of "So you think XYZ", where XYZ is a complete strawman of what the original post was arguing, is that some new fashion?

No, there is nothing new about it, either in general or on HN.
Sure. But then I don't think it makes much sense to be dispensing "advice" like this in such a generalized way.

Suggesting to a particular person that you know that they should try to find their life's mission and purpose may make sense given whatever you know about them. It may be absolutely the right advice (and path) for them to take, since there are undoubtedly people who do have such singular purpose.

However, that doesn't imply that this way of thinking about how to approach life makes any sense in a generalized "how to live an XXXX kind of life" article or book or talk or whatever. That's even more true if one of the metrics supporting why "an XXXX kind of life" is good includes happiness. If you're only going to be happy if you manage your singular unique mission and purpose in life, then the chances are extremely high that you will not be happy.
This is the thing about teslas. They're very anti-repair.

I would never in my life buy a car that can only be fixed in official company-licensed shops.

I have never gone to one of these overpriced shitholes in my entire car-owning life.
The email inbox with Archive/ All mail does work like gmail - I don’t use the UI. The filters are something I’m looking into
See, exactly proves my point. DOD is only 25%. If you do not cycle them much, you can make a lead acid last for years no problem. If you are doing 100% DOD, and do not with to deal with maintenance, and wish to have high coulombic efficiency, lithium is far better.

Volumetric density is a side benefit of lithium. We use it for coulombic efficiency, low voltage sag, high cycle life (much higher than lead acid, regardless of cycling bandwidth), usable capacity at low temperatures (much higher than lead acid! People always get this wrong), and higher specific energy. And lead acid sulfation and shorted cells require recycling. You can safely use a lifepo4 pack for years after degradation occurs. Lead acid is easier to recycle, but lithium ion recycling companies are dominating the space now. It is not like it was 3 years ago. Times are changing and there is no way anyone wants to throw out cobalt from a pack. LFP is much easier to recycle than cobalt based chemistries as well.
Non-AMP link:

https://www.france24.com/en/20141124-french-city-grenoble-ba...
You must know some pretty smart 5-year-olds. I gave up about a quarter of the way through it.
>> There are concerns that 5G signals, which use 3700-3998 MHz, can overpower radar altimeter signals, which operate in the 4200-4400 MHz band.

RADALTs are tricky things. They are finicky. Sometimes they get good reflections and sometimes they are confused by irregular terrain, particularly over urban areas. Imho 5G would, at most, cause radalt blackout/failure (ie no displayed altitude) rather than the far more dangerous false readings. And any interference should be intermittent. Unless you are hovering over a cell tower the strength of the 5g signal should rise and fall pretty quickly as the aircraft moves between cells.
So how exactly will they enforce these patents?
It uses app downloads as a proxy for device sales - which was OP's criticism (as you noted, this could be multiple app downloads per device), but in reality the numbers for app downloads seem to approximately tally back to the publicly disclosed figures anyway.
> I don't care how the packages are arranged on my Mac; the system is too locked down for me to really have the level of control I'd like anyway, so better to just accept the usability advantages and get on with [my] life.

This is a valuable perspective. I wonder how much macOS primes users in general to value usability over other dimensions of good design.

(I also wonder how much better a time I'd have on macOS if I adopted this attitude.)
Yeah it's why I probably won't ever be buying an EV. The technology and repairability needs another decade or more to mature. I have no interest in paying indefinite rent to use a car.
I agree being anti-repair is bad, but what car manufacturer isn't at least somewhat anti-repair? Or do you never plan to buy a car at all? Also, isn't Tesla significantly better than most manufacturers in this regard, in that everything but the high-voltage system has parts available for anyone to repair?
To add to the above, my understanding is that classifying autism spectrum disorders into subcategories (eg aspergers) didn't seem to provide much benefit and it made things more difficult to understand. At this point all of our limited interventions are similar and are focused on strengthening social skills, which applies whether you have aspergers or pervasive developmental disorder.

This may change again if we find benefit in subclassification (e.g. a treatment that benefits aspergers patients only).
Yes, there is no zealot like a religious zealot - I see them all as frauds on mankind, confidence men of another age who figured out a way to live free and control people - Scientology, Islam, Christianity, Communism = cut from same cloth?
They all want $$ and to control your life and want you to kill outsiders.
Confucianism and Buddhism differ, but I do not know enough about them to determine where to allocate their place in a control based system.
Do you remember the name for it? Sounds really useful.
Except CSI across the board has increased incredibly fast compared to historical trends since 2000 ish, not just in cities.

EDIT: I meant CSI, Case-Schiller Index, for house prices, a tragic typo XD
I think the methodology of this paper is quite weak and the results do not support the strongly opinionated conclusion the authors draw from them.

The first example is a plain text with a few footnotes in a two-column scientific journal layout. The participants were asked to "reproduce" this text, but the article does not explain what is meant by that. Is it a mistake if the font sizes and spacings don't exactly match? This would certainly explain why LaTeX users had a lot more "formatting errors and typos" and wrote less text (presumably they spent a lot of time trying to google a suitable template). This is not representative of typical paper writing, where you either have a template provided by the journal or you just pick something you like.

The second text are some tables and they get the unsurprising result that making tables in LaTeX really sucks.

The third text is heavy on equations and they get the unsurprising result that the Word equation editor really sucks.

From this they somehow conclude that using LaTeX is a waste of taxpayer money.
> Automation and robots.

But we're actually not there yet, otherwise business wouldn't be clamoring for workers.
This broke my blog, but then I fixed it.
Thanks for the information! I forgot to mention the only "research" of ASN.1 I ever did is the linked post (: