skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both the parent comment and the OP article talk about the federal subsidy, which both imply drive low labor participation rates. You can read the same argument from years back out of the Brookings Institute, just substitute COVID subsidies with Opioids [1] as the cause of depressed labor participation.

My counter: The labor-force participation is still at historic highs compared to the 1950s through the early 70s, but not as high as its peak in 2000 [2]. Combined with relatively normal unemployment historically [3] the market for labor is squeezed. After 40 years of neoliberal policy dismantling state programs they've released as much marginal labor as possible, and we are all now seeing a return to historic norms.

[1]: https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/where-have-all-the-w...

[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=KfNL

[3]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
It was posted on an older thread, but there's a quote by a surveyor and geologist in the 1800s as they were defining water rights. He mentioned there is no way to sustain an agricultural population in these areas despite the aquifers.
I have been running k8s clusters at utilizations far beyond 50% (up to 90% during incidents). For web services/microservices, so tail latencies were important.

The way we solved this? 1. Kernel settings. Check e.g. the settings of the Ubuntu low latency kernel for example. 2. CFS tuning. Short timeslices. There are good documentations on how to do that 3. CPU pressure. We cordoned and load shedded overloaded nodes (k8s-pressurecooker).

By limiting the maximum CPU pressure to 20% you can say "every service will get all the CPU it needs at least 80% of the time on most nodes". This is what you want. A low chance of seeing CPU exhaustion. This is needed for predictable and stable tail latencies.

There are a few more knobs. E.g. scale services such that you use at least one core as requests are effectively limits under congestions and you can't get half a core continuously.

Very nice to see that people go public about this. We need to drop the footprint of services. It is straight up wasted money and CO2.
> You don’t need to fix everything, just make the world better by being in it.

I wish more people would follow this advice. I've made it a habit to try to make the world an infinitesimally better place every day. It doesn't always work out, but the effort is a huge boon to my mental health and maybe I succeed and the world is a better place.
About this:

"When price inflation occurs, it can be a very challenging time for everyone. In that type of environment, prices of goods and services often go up faster than wages, and the public and policymakers wish to constrain them."

Wages in the USA went up faster than inflation during the period 1893-1973, despite two long upwards trends in inflation, 1893-1920 and 1938-1973.

Likewise, wages rose faster than inflation for most of the 1800s, though the 1800s didn't see many long-term inflationary trends.

When you read an article like this one, it is worth remembering that the era 1973-1995, when inflation rose much faster than wages, is unique in USA history.

Also, inflation rose faster than wages for most of the period from 2000-2015, even though this was an era of low inflation.

So, when someone says high inflation will outrace the increase in wages, they are really just talking about 1973-1995.

I've read many different theories about why the era 1973-1995 was so bad, and I don't think there is a definite answer, but there is wide agreement that two of the big contributing factors then were deindustrialization and the collapse of the labor unions. It seems unlikely that anything like deindustrialization is going to repeat itself now, as the USA has already lost all of the jobs that compete directly with low wage export industries.
Did we ever get that follow-up from 6-12 months later?
Some potential explanations off ghr top of my head...

- I happened to get lucky on my last 5 journeys

- Many people how have more flexibility about when they start/end work, even if they're not working remotely

- People are avoiding public transport due to worries about COVID and increasing crime

- Outside of peak hours, buses still need to run with some minimum frequency to be a viable option, so they often run empty or with only 1-5 passengers

You could come up with others...
I'm outside of Olympia WA and it snowed pretty decent (several inches) last night and this pretty well explains the feeling. Nice job :D
This is terrible social science:

-The data is incomplete

-They test only hypotheses regarding unemployment benefits and COVID health effects. The study design was geared to get the answer they wanted.

-They don’t ever ask why labor force exits in the US are dominated by women with children and workers over 55.

-They don’t ask why the biggest issues are in leisure and hospitality businesses, where weekly wages are 29% lower than retail, even after a substantial rise in 2021.
A package manager or package-management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner. [0]

If it installs, upgrades, configures and removes programs, App Store is indeed one of these. Apple invented package managers in 2008 (LOL).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager
Anyone who makes an argument based on something and backs it up with one data point about something as complicated as labor supply isn't making a full thought out argument.

The argument your making is that the US stimulus checks are so great that business just can't compete with laziness. Yet the total cumulative stimulus is less then the poverty line. If business can pay someone above that line than maybe there labor is better spent elsewhere or at least that time with there families.

Now that's harsh but that's the way that your argument comes across. Now the original post balances with reason by saying stimulus has given people room to not work at low paying jobs but it's not necessary because they are lazy but because they jobs they work suck and pay like crap. Hence the reason business will raise wages because that is the major problem. Working retail where people are rude and mean is not pleasant and if you want people to deal with unpleasant people you have to pay them more
Yes as do the walls of a cylinder is a gasoline engine, and every moving metal part. but of course by
now they tend to last for 20 years or more so nobody cares.

There are mitigations steps you can take with an EV: don’t keep it fully charged for long, don’t supercharge too often, store it in a garage and keep it plugged in so it can regulate the pack temps without cycling it. One problem is I don’t know how you can evaluate the health of a pack when buying used.
I've done mostly the same (heat pumps, all electric), also in the Bay Area.

In addition I upgraded the building envelope by air sealing it to high levels (1 ACH50 for building science nerds - close to th the Passive House standard) and installed an always-on heat recovery ventilation system.

The net effect is that the house uses 75% fewer total BTUs for heating than it used to when I had a gas fueled furnace.

In terms of operational cost, due to the 300%+ efficiency of the heat pump used to generate those BTUs, it results in a heating cost of roughly $100 (for roughly 400kWh) for the entire winter, vs the $500 (for roughly 250 therms) that I would spend on natural gas heat.

So on an absolute operational cost basis it's not much savings, since the climate is mild, but it's wildly more comfortable and my indoor allergies are a thing of the past.
> the national test (at least in the US), which has a year-long wait list.

what is this?

I can find no evidence that this exists.

There is no precise test for autism.
I spent an hour yesterday deleting spam, and then I get emails from long time viewers stating that their comments have been removed. I cannot tell you how frustrating it is. I try to fix this every single day, and I get my long time viewers to report the spam. Youtubes system is awful.

Thank you!! Hysolis is awesome, and with the LF inverter, you can easily work on it yourself. I am glad my videos help :) There are tons of scams online these days, and I love exposing them.
932 of his own miles, he bought it used
Thanks for this.

Why did you decide to go into data and ML stuff? Just interest? Do you think it would have taken less time to transition to a more conventional web dev role?
For sure, though all that adds costs and makes it clear we just don’t know yet what the actual cost is of the right solution (or what the actual right solution is).

Transmission alone can’t fix this due to national security concerns, which is also a huge factor in the current energy cost problem in Europe - a large portion of European natural gas comes from Russia, and Russia has made it clear they’re willing to use gas for larger policy goals in the past. Including turning it off and causing huge safety issues if Germany and others won’t play ball.

Even solar in the Sahara has this problem, as these lines are easy to cut during a war or ‘accident’, and hard to protect over these distances.

Energy supplies and access to them played a huge role in WW2, and that hasn’t stopped.
what makes you think that getting nowhere is caused by you doing as the article suggest?

i am just curious here, not judging. where do you want to get, and what do you think it takes to get there?

i too thought that most of the points applied to me and my feeling was that i would be miserable if they didn't. i can't in fact imagine living another way. this is me, and i am going to make the most of it, regardless what others think.

(to all the commenters who suggest that this list makes for a miserable life: if that's the case then this list is not for you. it's for those of us who don't enjoy following others)

i'd like to share one specific experience that seems relevant. in highschool i was a contrarian. a quiet one who expressed this by wearing different things than everyone else. at one point i realized that if everyone else started to copy my style then i would change my own style, and that meant that my style was just as dependent on others as was everyone elses.

that realization made me stop being a contrarian and instead i simply chose a new style that i could enjoy on its own regardless whether it differentated me from anyone or not.

so instead of asking: will this differentiate me from others?, i am asking: is this comfortable for me? is this something i want? does this fit into my principles of life? ...
The authors tested it on researchers working in Physics, Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical engineering, Business (MBAs), Sport Science, and others.

But... they did not break down results by field (!), and also did not ask the researchers to compose a complex, highly structured document akin to something that they would actually publish (!), and also did not ask the researchers to reorganize a structured document repeatedly, as is typical in research (!), and also did not ask the researchers to recreate tables multiple times with updated data (!).

Not a very useful study.
Also the importance of intuition, but going against the crowd can be a lonely road, not for everybody. I'm reminded of warning not to read too much. "When we read, another person thinks for us, we merely repeat his mental process" - Schopenhauer
Inflation isn't controlled by any single person, not even the fed can control inflation, they can only "mitigate" it by making it harder to borrow new money.

For example. If the government were to ban car imports, then if inflation were a tax, it would be levied by the car companies, not by the government.

When workers demand higher wages, then they would be the ones taxing the owners of money.

The only universal statement that you can make about inflation is that it hurts creditors and benefits debtors and it often does so in a way that prevents debt slavery which is why I personally am fine with some degree of monetary inflation.

My point is that creditors and debtors can be completely different people at different time periods. After world war 2 consumers had very little debt but the government had a lot of it because of the war. Nowadays young students have a lot of debt. Homeowners have extremely expensive mortgages. Companies borrow to pay out dividends or do stock buybacks. Wealthy people may go into debt for tax reasons.

Blanket statements about who is benefiting aren't really possible so being angry by default about inflation helps no one.
Remember that aphorisms like that don't only apply to your side.

Every time you say something like that, imagine that someone whose sense of injustice is opposite to yours is using it. Maybe they think that abortion is literal murder. Maybe it's the 1950s and they think some poor black guy has raped a white girl (because how would she ever consent?) Maybe they're a Russian living in Ukraine and they think the Ukrainian government is oppressing the Russians and the only way to stop this is by helping Russian troops take over.

I want people to say "No, I do not have to bomb that abortion clinic. No, I do not have to join that lynch mob. No, I do not have to overthrow the government." If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you haven't chosen the side of the oppressor. Rather, if you're neutral in situations of injustice, it means that you have figured out that humility can be a virtue.
Mechanical mechanisms commonly used in machinery and in life
I've been hearing about water issues my entire life living in California but I don't worry about it because one of these days people will come to their senses and realize clean water is a precious resource that is priced too cheaply. Once we pay for it what it's worth, it will no longer be economical to grow water intensive crops [1] and it will become economical desalinate Pacific Ocean water like San Diego [2] powered by the falling price of renewable energy [3] (one day with plentiful fusion energy maybe) or pumping water from Oregon to California through an undersea pipeline [4] and more far out plans like pumping water from Alaska using 6 nuclear powered pumping stations and atomic bombs to dig trenches will be unnecessary [6] [7]

[1] https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/specialsections/these-...

[2] https://www.sdcwa.org/your-water/local-water-supplies/seawat...

[3] https://www.statista.com/chart/26085/price-per-megawatt-hour...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_interstate_water_pipe...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...

[7] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nijhuis/pipe-dreams-the...

edit: For example, people are fine with paying $2 for a bottle of clean water but farmers get mad if you suggest paying more than $70 an acre foot for similar quality water. An acre foot is 325,851 gallons of good clean water suitable for growing the high quality crops California is known for
I’m currently in Ashland, and was planning to drive up to Portland today. With strong snow all along the 5 [1], I’m thinking it’s better to bunker down for a few days before doing the trip.

It’s normally a 4.5 hour drive, but with snow chains and delays I could see it being closer to 10.

[1] https://www.tripcheck.com/DynamicReports/Report/RoadConditio...
> If it installs, upgrades, configures and removes programs, App Store is indeed one of these.

So. Do you use it to install all your software? Oh wait. You don't: "Give me MacPorts any day of the week and twice on Sunday."

So, why aren't you using App Store?
the leetcode/algo question stuff is mentioned here on HN alot but I've never gotten to the point where a test was actually offered to me. will start practicing though and hopefully an opportunity pops up.
I'm using mailu.io with docker and haven't had any trouble for two years now. Cost me 1-2d in total.
West WA doesn't have the infrastructure to clear the roads(which makes sense given how infrequently it snows) combine that with some steep areas and it's fairly predictable what happens.
Real wages are going down. Nominal wages are going up significantly, but prices for goods and services are going up far faster. Keep in mind government corruption meant the rich got far more handouts than the poor, and that many billions were stolen by scammers.

Government enforced shutdowns and regulations caused this, people should have been allowed to exercise their personal freedoms to stay home if they were at risk rather than required to at gunpoint.

BTW, I am not an anti-masker / anti-vaxxer. I have the vaccine and booster and wear a mask. I just think the government reaction has been worse than the pandemic itself.
>> it's a whole fan dance to get into the car.

I've never jumped a full EV, but I have had to jump a couple hybrids after their 12v batteries ran flat. Can you not get to the 12v battery using a mechanical key? Any 12v jumpstart kit should provide enough voltage to activate the solenoid and get everything online.
It's a 2013 model, I assume he bought it used (with many miles on it) and then drove it 932 miles before running into problems.

Unless maybe he bought it new and stored it without driving it for eight years, until the warranty had expired, and then ran into problems when he started driving it?
The funny thing is the forgivable payroll loans are the reason many businesses are around to hire now.
They've tried! ACH has been somewhat modernized over the decades, in the form of compliance and in-protocol changes (faster turnarounds, additional transaction codes for online transactions and different cardholder verification methods). The Fed has also been working on a modern replacement to ACH for at least a decade, and is planning on performing an initial release in 2023[1].

But as for why it's taken so long: banking in the US is, for various reasons, significantly more complicated than banking in most other countries. The US has thousands of FDIC-insured banks and credit unions, each of which operates under a patchwork of municipal, state, and federal regulations. Banks are (mostly) required to honor each other's checks and transactions which means that, in the worst case, there's a total graph of all ~10,000 banks and credit unions serving as both ODFIs and RDFIs[2]. Transaction failures between any two nodes in that graph are a possible compliance failure, so any common mechanism is both a lowest common denominator and resists any modernization or other changes than can cause disruption.

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...

[2]: It's actually simpler than this, since the ACH clearinghouses serve as a central resolution and dispatch service for all ODFIs and RDFIs. But each O/RDFI still has to interpret the ACH record(s) they receive, so there's still extraordinary inertia against any changes.
GP did not specify, but it's likely that they are referring to deep-cycle lead acid batteries, not standard car batteries.

Deep-cycle batteries are commonly used as the house power for RVs, boats, solar storage, etc.
Do you have a list of complaints? I'm interested.
No of course not, I just see people on this site stating to use recycled NMC cells that are capable of burning down their house with one wrong move, then saying my videos are dangerous. I cover safety all the time, more so than any other channel I know. I do not understand why people are saying these things. I work very hard to make my videos, and people here on this site who do not understand batteries are trying to criticize me. It really makes me mad.

And thank you. Just figured out the automated banning process and am using a VPN now. I just want to respond to people, and I hope they can provide evidence of when I did something dangerous. Or said something wrong. And yes, I see what you mean about the downvotes. I am very upset right now because I could argue every point made against me here. I also allow people to criticize whatever they wish on my forum, so it makes it hard on this site where I am instantly censored if I get downvotes. It is very frustrating.
Thing is: many AWS customers have a sub-100k/mo bill. Savings from this sub-100k person will be relatively lower.

On top of that, for small/mid-sized companies, it's difficult to avoid "employee-lockin". It's perceived as a minor risk to have a vendor lock-in. Unfortunately, often they turn out to be right.
IIRC, GPM stored user uploads in MP3. If you uploaded a non-MP3 file, it was transcoded into a MP3 during upload. It is this file that GPM takeout is providing.

Separate from that, GPM matched your uploaded MP3 file against the service music corpus, and if there was a match, the service streamed the canonical version. Originally the streaming service used 320 kbps MP3, but later the service switched to 256 kbps AAC. GPM takeout does not provide the canonical version.
FAANG interviews are best approached as iterative steps. That is: expect that you'll fail the majority of them (this is true for most capable people) and keep doing them as regularly as you can until you get an offer.

I bet most engineers at these companies did not get an offer on their first 3 tries. This is not a big deal at all because they'll let you interview over and over after cool-off periods.
This is one of the best articles I’ve read in awhile - thank you!
Isn't there some kind of indicator the software can produce, as do the laptops and iphones? Or are those indicators not very reliable in practice?
I played it a bit, but got turned off a bit by the random events. In particular there was an event where huge numbers of one type of critter would appear randomly on the map. If you could talk those critters into joining your armies you were guaranteed a win. If not you lose. The entire game at that point became a race to collect as many of those critters as possible and form a giant doomstack that nothing could hope to stop and crush the opposing castle.
>The limit being that the whole program, including all dependent crates need to compiled from source with the same compiler.

Which isn't really much of a problem given that the ecosystem is built around cargo compiling from source.
> SendBank and ReceiveBank both lost the money and ACH members had to collectively bail it out (or a bank had to eat it).

SendBank sends $X dollars, ReceiveBank receives $X dollars. Imposter then cashes $X out of ReceiveBank (usually giving fake info). What's a scenario of fraud where this isn't the case? AFAIK there is no instance where the money simple disappears during transmission. FYI - This is why there is so much KYC done when you setup a bank account at a bank, so if you do cash out they can trace you.

> Arguably, for bitcoin, the fraud rate could be said to be 0%.

Agreed. This is exactly the problem (1) with crypto in general and (2) how difficult it would be to even calculate fraud for any cryptocoin.
You can deploy an email server almost instantly by getting a cheap vps with cPanel on it -- with everything you needed already configured, including spam filtering, security, etc.
I've been making sacrifices, bettering myself, and applying to jobs at a relaxed pace (I have turned down a few that insisted that things would be done the Old Way). Thank God that I am in the relatively luxurious position to do so.

Just now I've noticed that downvotes have started to pour in. I am convinced that there is a troll army from a foreign nation-state sent to sow discord, or maybe the Pinktertons, who still have a sophisticated union-busting intelligence group, and get paid tons of money for it by "Great Place To Work" companies you might not expect.
It's a thousand pages, give or take a few.
I'll be writing more in a week or two.
I could make it longer if you like the style.
I can change it 'round,
And I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer
Yes, I am actually working on a side-project with a friend, and we hope it can be a viable startup.

I didn't mention it because I didn't want to confuse or overload this thread, but if it ends up not working out, I'll probably be back on here asking how to leverage the experience to get a job lol