skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desperate people do desperate things. This is why I really hate the crypto bros - the whole system is set up to rip people off, often the most desperate and tech illiterate, given the coin and NFT pitches are transparently bullshit to those of us with no vested interest and some familiarity with the tech and economics.
At least for surge pricing there is argument that you need to manage scarcity somehow. If everybody wants a ride because it’s raining, you can either rise prices or not, and make it a lottery. The latter is more fair, but the former has higher chance of bringing more drivers into circulation.
Interpedia FAQ – 02/15/94
Charging less sometimes can give you interesting advantages. For instance, Xiaomi effectively crushes their competitors by purposely cutting their profit margin[1], such that:

- If you are to build a product with similar quality to Xiaomi's, it has to be priced higher than Xiaom's, because unless your production/sales volume is on par with Xiaomi, your production cost is very likely higher than Xiaomi's. Customers will prefer Xiaomi's product because it is cheaper.

- If you cut down production cost by bringing down quality, you might be able to price the product in Xiaomi's price range. But customers will still prefer Xiaomi because it has better quality for the same price range.

1: https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/11/28/xiaomi-ceo-says-that-g...
Outside of index funds and owning real estate/property in Western countries, what else would be considered a safe investment?
I'm not sure it's that different. Not everything is an easily tangible product: We can debate the specifics of effort vs. reward, but I think it's pretty indisputable that the App store does provide at least a little bit of value add in the form of exposure for the vendor and convenience for the customer. So "charge more" applies to that value-add.
Isn't this the same as just running a boot cd or PXE server and running all the data out of RAM drives? I mean we've been doing this for years on linux as hobbyists haven't we? Or does this bring somethign new to the table?
There was plenty of money that went to individuals as well and I imagine that's driving retail stocks and now consumer prices. 68% of unemployed workers who received benefits were eligible for payments that are greater than their lost earnings:

> As a result, though, many people may now be eligible for substantially more money while unemployed than they made while they were working. A new analysis by Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel and Joseph Vavra, economists at the University of Chicago, uses government data from 2019 to estimate that 68 percent of unemployed workers who can receive benefits are eligible for payments that are greater than their lost earnings. They also found that the estimated median replacement rate — the share of a worker’s original weekly salary that is being replaced by unemployment benefits — is 134 percent, or more than one-third above their original wage. A substantial minority of those workers, particularly in low-wage professions like food service and janitorial work, may end up receiving more than 150 percent of their previous weekly salary.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-gett...
I never put the two together but still have one of the astronomy books from when I was a kid!
That's a neat story that highlights the hacker mindset and what's cool about this little Handshake hack. Sure, it seems useless in a way, who cares about sharing a few characters on a blockchain or finding out what's for lunch. But there's something novel in it that sparks ideas.
And don't forget Uber eats. That's a 30% cut from the restaraunt, right?
My two cents: be specific about what you want to learn
Markup is not profit.
H1B is predatory because switching jobs is very difficult. Due to the hardships of switching jobs, the immigrant may take on more abuse.

I do agree with you that most people will see their lives improved when compared to the country they immigrated from. However, the abuse does exist.

The complaint isn't that H1B should go away. It that it needs reform.
You don't have to use the servers in Sweden if you don't want to.
If your data is tiny then within reason nothing matters, any popular database will be just fine. Where you care is precisely when your data gets big enough to be unwieldy.
This is pretty wild and an exaggeration. You’ll get robbed if you’re not a local, sure.

Crime in the favelas is again afaik a very local thing. I’ve had lunch and dinner in restaurants in favelas and I know there’s a favela in Rio where people go for night life.

Ofc I am Brazilian and have family there.

A lot of these favelas the gang that controls them holds the peace. As a gringo you’d get robbed immediately sure, but for locals? The favelas are not some insane dystopian nightmare for many people who live in them. They’re just poor places, shanty towns.
> just like an MMU can restrict what process(es) can access a particular byte or block of RAM, something similar could restrict access to a common storage medium.

Sure, that'd be cool, like segmentation registers.

> of course more than that happens. I am trying to make a point and not document the minutia of the entire boot process of a modern x86_64 computer.

That's fair but it did seem like a central part of your point was that "starting up" was equivalent to existing on disk - though I suspect I was misreading your post.
Happy to help my dude! Paste me an error or screenshot or a debug log?
I find a lot of their content quite good and am more than happy to pay for it.

And a quick googlin' indicates it wasn't a marketing department that came up with "the paper of record" but librarians.

But to be Fair and Balanced, you're right to be shocked that a company would use marketing slogans to sell their product. Especially a news organization.
How about a pseudonym? Or how about I make a repository with a blog for you and give you owner access to it? It's my site, you're just invited to contribute. I don't think I need an impressum then.
Feel free to propose an alternative explanation for this datapoint that's consistent with the rest as well.
I don't doubt any of what you said, this question is out of interest -- do you have sources about each of these things?
There are much safer assets that have generally stable returns. These people are looking to get rich quick
The cost always falls down to the end customers. "just don't buy it" doesn't work if everybody is doing it, which they all are in Silicon Valley.
Please don't ad hominem the parent poster by claiming they have a "mental illness" like this.
http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/fit_compare.html

cold dark matter (CDM) is a superimposed amorphous blob of invisible non-interacting matter, hence its inability to model the kinks in the real rotation curve

modified gravity (MOND) models the kinks in the rotation curve
Love algo. hard to imagine another project comes close to the ease of setting up an algo server...
HCQ can be effective when used early and in correct dosages, as shown in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies. One widely-publicised, large Lancet study claiming it was "unsafe" was later retracted as it turned out to be made up BS. [0]

Living meta-study of 300+ likely non-pretend control studies on 400k+ patients:

https://c19hcq.com/

(Edit to add: And this was apparent early-on. Nothing much has changed with HCQ's profile since it was first identified as an effective, safe therapeutic in early 2020.)

[0] https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/lancetgate-why-was-this-m...
I think the same thing should apply, but it's just not as harmful to society currently, because it's just one platform among many, many others, and it's just for games. Whatever the proper regulation is to counter this, it might very well apply to pure gaming platforms as well, making it so that anyone is allowed to make, market and sell games on them, no matter how small.
>>Who decides H1B is predatory?

Facts, Reality, 1000's of people that have exploited by the system and talk about their experiences publicly just like your fellow commenter that seems to have had a different experience than you.

>>Based on my personal experience,I don't think it is. H1B is boon for many people, who came here, got educated and started contributing to the local economy.

2 things can be true at the same time as well, it could very well be a boon for the person, but it could also artificially stunt their growth due to the restrictions placed on them by the program, I am not sure how anyone could honestly argue that is better for the immigrant to be locked into their employer, and for the employer to have the power to deportation over their employee.. Or honestly argue that would not be abused by less than ethical employers of which there many.

You may have found a good one, I can assure you not everyone does

>>It appears your pro immigration stance is for people, who are less educated and more likely to provide cheaper non tech services.

That seems to be a huge leap based on an assumption that does not track with reality. I am unclear as to what would prevent highly educated people from immigrating to the US with more open immigration, but how H1B does not?

>>To summarize, your stance is not for pro or against immigration, but to serve your own interests like everyone.

Does not serve my interests at all really. I am not impacted by immigration one way or the other.
That's really nice, but to me still sounds like the wrong way to go. Instead of reducing something that is too much, that which is too much should not have been added in the first place. We are doing work here, removing, what we have previously added.

I wonder how much ineffective styling still remains after "tree shaking". I guess the fancy tree shaking is out of luck, if we add unnecessary styling to elements, which are indeed used. It seems a really hard problem to solve automatically, to transform CSS in a way, that takes care of redundancies and unnecessary styling, while still maintaining the readability, which well crafted CSS can have.
Since it is a two sided platform, not a single product ("phone and apps"), and as Apple is constraining the payment downstream market, and causing harm to the consumer (30% markup), there is a case.

Some textbook rulings will apply, since Apple exces admit that if they do no constrain downstream, no one will use their 30% markup product. So consumers could be better off by definition

although Apple will argue that they will charge more to downstream producers directly, but this is also difficult to argue (they can do this anyway and extract rents from consumers and producers at the same time).

If you have a monopolistic platform market on which you also produce, it seems rather hard not to get sued
Poor people use what little money they have to purchase hope. It comes in many forms. Hope allows one to live in a future fantasy which is less painful than the present moment.

Hope may be the most basic human emotional need.
That is until you meet some subscription wizard like Adobe or a similar "you have a couple of weeks in December to cancel your sub" legal artist, then you likely miss it, and https://youtube.com/watch?v=8k5oAaXINX8
What market share? Market cap? Bitcoin is a failed experiment. It will go away eventually.
> generally pro-immigration stance when it comes to low-wage workers, which is contrasted with the anti-tech immigration stance

I have the opposite view and don't believe they are diametrically opposed. I see many legitimate reasons to cap unskilled immigration while seeing virtually no good reasons to cap skilled.
This contradicts my experiences, as someone who personally went through it. Of all my immigrant friends and acquainteances (around 50 people) at different tech companies, around 90% are or are or were on H1B. Not a single consider themselves abused by their employer. Many of them have changed companies when they've been on H1B. Your status is tied to your employer, but you can find a new sponsor. H1B transfer is standard procedure.

Of course there is abuse. Even systemic abuse. This goes both ways though. For instance, Indian applicants can wait for over a decade for green card, we're talking completely americanized, fluent and self sufficient people, often with high positions at companies. People who did everything right, by any standard. Are these people abused? Perhaps, but if so, it's because the US government refuses to acknowledge them as permanent residents, which they clearly are for all practical purposes.

Alternatives and improvements to H1B is important, but suspiciously few in this community were interested in such a discussion at the time. Imo, parent comment is spot on that this is one of the hackernews dissonances.
"overvolted, overclocked and inadequately cooled" - sounds like a default GPU setup (only half-joking). IIRC the optimal performance per watt for a modern consumer GPU is at half the stock TDP, according to MonsterLabo.
do { a <- m; return r }

Ia desugared to m >>= (\a -> return r)

Think of it m.then(function (a) return r)
> but I think it's pretty indisputable that the App store does provide at least a little bit of value add in the form of exposure for the vendor and convenience for the customer.

I think it's disputable. It would seem to be adding about the same amount of value that the Windows store does for Windows users. How much is that?
As a used car seller I’m very happy though. Good time to refresh your car
Covid-19 antigen tests in the age of Omicron: Understanding reliability results
that's like saying "standard oil just sells hydrocarbon". Computing underpins virtually every aspect of the economy, almost all communication, the national infrastructure, increasingly the military, and the public debate.

The tech industry (of which Apple is the largest representative) is, and increasingly becoming even more, the second largest center of power within any modern nation. As evidenced by the fact that they can and have removed elected representatives (most of which I'm not a fan of to make that clear) from public debate.
What if you were economically harmed both by Google and Apple? Do you have any real alternatives left?
> Consumer spending has gone down. Too many dollars cannot be the problem if they aren't being spent!

Source?

This is what I could find: Personal Consumption Expenditures

Also savings rate has gone back down after a spike that coincided with stimulus payments

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
Until this thread I really thought that nearly all crypto speculation was just people in tech with more money than they knew what do to with having a bit of fun. Stupid, but harmless stupid. If you get paid 300k a year, why no buy a 10k NFT for fun.

I had no idea people outside of tech were taking this stuff so seriously, I can understand a bit better why some people have essentially made it their life's mission to denounce crypto as a scam.
> I can’t go to. Ford dealership and buy a new Chevy or go to Kroger and buy Costco brand

Bad analogy. A better analogy would be if a customer already purchased a ford car, and then tried to fix the car with a 3rd party repair person.

There are literal laws about this, for cars, that require ford to provide manuals, to 3rd parties, and require ford to sell replacement parts for 3rd parties to repair cars from.
There's no fundamental link between the cost of storing data on a blockchain and time. However, practically, it does look like the most common blockchains have gotten more expensive over time: Bitcoin, Ethereum, even Dogecoin. However, you could imagine a blockchain that gets cheaper over time i.e. by issuing more coins or even stays the same.
Sweet. Didn't know this existed. Is your site theme custom?

From a quick check of https://jsonresume.org/ it looks like they only have document themes, not website themes.
Developers have to pay $100 every year and in 2018 there were 20M registered developers. Probably closer to 25M now.
Is that true? They aren’t required to sell you a car. I think they could require you to use their preferred lender as a condition of selling the car to you.
> This is business.

Sort of, it would be just business if developers were allowed to release and install apps from somewhere else other than the App Store, and if there were allowed to use any type of payment system they wanted to, or even the mere fact if there were allowed to tell users to go somewhere else besides Apples IAP system to make a payment. It's monopolistic and anti-capitalist if you compound all the facts together.
Yep whether it's empty or full a high rent building sells for more.
Honestly, I'm beginning to think that constantly ringing the alarm bells desensitizes people. These sorts of articles year after year are creating people that either don't care or don't think their life matters enough to care, considering "life won't be worth living in 20 years anyways."

So I'm not sure what there is to be done, it's like a catch 22. Tell people nothing and they leave it out of their minds, tell them about it and they get desensitized, maybe mobilizing the people is doomed to fail from the start and this thing is irreversible.
I had this thought in the back of my mind, but we had a kid anyway. I just plan to train him to be an excellent archer and swordsman so he can take control of the coming wastelands
How can it be anything other than a wash if you both buy and sell?
Pull requests are trapped inside Microsoft's proprietary platform (Github) and viewable only on the web for as long as Microsoft sees fit to give you access. Good luck getting that history out if your Github account is ever disabled for any reason.

Commit messages are part of the repository itself, meaning they're replicated (backed up) locally every time you pull. They can be viewed using any tool that operates on Git repositories, e.g. https://magit.vc.
For some circuits, there can be substantial redundancy. This includes memory, disks and networks. Sometimes that redundancy is in hardware, sometimes software and sometimes a mix.

For other hardware, there is almost the of redundancy. In those parts of the system, you depend on multiple components all working correctly with no chance of detecting errors at the circuit level. This means that if you have 10 components with expected life of 6-20 years (with a mean of 10) you can expect an actual life of about 6, not the mean life at all. The weakest link and all that.
>>not open borders…

I want to be clear no where did I say anything about "open borders", I said "more open immigration"

I do believe in some controls on immigration, security controls as an example. However I also believe it should be vastly easier than it is today, order of magnitude more open than it is today.
Such an underrated movie
You may not have seen it yet but you will. I'm on the east coast and I see it at every store, even Dollar General.
> their implicit normalization rules can trip up programs which expect behavior closer to POSIX norms

does POSIX define any uniform normalization rules?
You can’t mine Bitcoin on a GPU in 2022. ETH for a few more months (?) or whenever ETH2 rolls out and kills that too
Just yesterday I was walking in the park with a friend, a singer, who was saying that these days she has nothing to sing, no-one to sing for...I said, gee that sounds like a song, and we started writing it. "I've got nothing to sing, no-one to sing for" etc. It went on about how her friends betrayed her and her man hasn't yet appeared. Then today I read this! The blog version.
I mean, it’s better than: we can’t make String Theory predict anything…still nothing…science was wrong the whole time!
Had a mice infestation myself a few years ago. Glue traps worked great. Also, consider getting a cat.

Def seal all your food with plastic or glass containers.
Imagine if all the malls around the world that lease a physical store to Apple say to Apple: 30% of everything you sell at the store in our mall belongs to us.
So you're right but also wrong thanks to good tooling. If you have enough discipline to not put triggers on your tables then pt-online-schema-change has got you sorted. Does it take forever? Yep, but does it matter that it takes forver? Nope because it doesn't lock tables.

And even if you do have triggers https://github.com/github/gh-ost you can still do it.
I'm an apple customer and this wouldn't harm me but it will open the market to more competitive (cheaper and better) options.

Apple's attitude of "we know better than you" is the really shitty thing here.
Let's go back to 2002, toshiba announces 1GB compact flash memory card with a read speed of 6.5MB/second (maximum).

Compare that to 2002 Hynix Net DDR II with a read speed of about 100MB/s and clearly you can see how wrong I am.

My bad, I was confusing Flash that had a DRAM-like interface, and Flash that could read as fast as DRAM. But I cannot edit my response now.
For the end user, not the maintainers. Who's gonna sign up to keep that ENIAC, PDP-11, ALGOL 58, python2.3, win3.1, etc, code running, stable, and not a source of exploits?

Or do you mean in the abstract, fairy-tale ending sense?
VONS normally sells Open Nature "hormone+antibiotics free" rotisserie chickens on the daily. It's been coming up on a month now that they've been unable to get any of these according to the deli clerk. "We keep ordering them, but they don't show up" in her words.

Starbucks has been completely out of espresso beans on multiple occasions this past month too. It's unclear to me how a Starbucks even stays open without espresso beans, but apparently not all their beverages actually contain freshly pulled espresso... I've only ever gotten shots of espresso.

Walmart has been out of some multivitamins for over a month now too.

I don't buy much stuff from these vendors, this actually amounts to a large portion of crap I consume that isn't just organic produce and canned sardines which I've fortunately not had trouble acquiring. The above is kind of the luxury junk I can do without, but there's clearly problems.
Apple did do something right a long time ago... but it doesn't mean they get an indefinite 30% cut of the entire world.

I don't have a stake in this, I don't own an iPhone or Android phone, or any smart phone and never have... I just see a rent seeker abusing their position as much as possible.

> Developers for 10+ years abandoned Symbian, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone and everything else and instead focused on better hardware, software and developer APIs [...]

Note that we are discussing a huge markup on a material service, not merely software.
Another cool tool to easily launch a VPN of your choice (WireGuard, OpenVPN, SSH) in a cloud provider.

I tried it out before just to test it out, it's pretty cool.

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
Agreed! What came in the door for 1x was expected (and did) leave for 3x. So 200% in the pocket?
Don't mix URL parsers
TBH, they've basically gotten away with it for years because consumers aren't effected in a way you can see, because the blackmail of the app store platform lock in is so effective. Its absolutely extortion since you literally won't be allowed to do patches on your app until you cow to whatever policy they put in place that month.
I’m pretty sure the liberal west would rather see Lula instead of Bolsonaro (who is Latin America’s Trump!). And besides it was not Bolsonaro who was behind the massive corruption scheme organized by the Workers Party (I mean either mensalao or have another sitting duck government, so it’s always lose-lose, but that’s beside the point).

between Lula and Kirchner, I’d rather have YOLO Bukele!
Ask HN: Best Alternative to Dropbox?
Since Dropbox was launched on HN (in a way), it is only appropriate that I ask for alternatives to it here. I have been a paying subcriber for many years now but of late with their own app on Mac, they seem to have made many anti-user, pro-company-revenue, dark-patterns decisions (e.g., if I choose for some folders to be "local" I then see that all its subfolders are still cloud-only) that have sent me searching for another viable alternative, especially one that will allow an easy import from Dropbox.