skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, it's funny, I see in the price adjusted the US is near the top, with most of the population seeming well off. On the other hand, there is _a lot_ of complaint about poverty in the US, and, well, a lot of unsatisfaction about the income. I honestly don't know what to think anymore. Is the US popoulation really poor or just... unhappy with what they have because they compare with others?

I had a short stint in the US with a work & travel program and, my personal experience kind of painted the picture that people in the US are simply horrible with their finances. I was young, and I was smart and coming from, what I now realise, was poverty. It seemed to me I could have _easily_ had a good life over there, without even trying. Basically the ethos of FI community would have worked beautifully there. Spend less than you earn, try to have a clean life. Easy.

I think people need to have at least a little while living in poverty to understand what it really looks like. I remember my childhood in one of the ex communist countries, it was... wild. Uncertainty everywhere, we could not afford basic shit. I saw catalogues from some nice EU country and I was _flabberghasted_ that people could afford such nice things. And I was young, I couldn't even process things properly. But there was obvious disconnect between my life and some of the media, promotional material, films, cartoons I was seeing. It certainly gave me a interesting perspective.
My understanding is that there's no existing cross licensing for new extensions. That's why vt-x and svm are totally different implementions for x86 hardware virtualization; most of the newer supervisor state extensions aren't worth the overhead of cross licensing because it's only kernels and hypervisors utilizing them anyway rather than the orders of magnitude more user code out there.

Also notice how there aren't any Zen cores with AVX512. Even Zen4 is backporting BF16 out of AVX512 to AVX2, and BF16 is just 'use the top 16 bits of a normalizd f32' and was designed specifically to probably be without too much IP overhead.
Porting can involve a spectrum of changes. If you are porting to a different language, often for bug-for-bug compatibility you try to maintain the same rough code and class/object structure as the source codebase. This might give you some non-idiomatic code at first, but once you have good test coverage you can refactor. In this case you might maintain some of the upstream code structure to better match future changes.
> Love what you're doing.

Thanks!

> any plans to implement a full stored procedure language?

There are plans, and they have the word "Wasm" in them :-) You can also do a lot with pure-EdgeQL functions already.

> how well does it integrate with calls to postgres functions?

In theory all you need to do is write a function declaration with `USING SQL FUNCTION` [2], however we are currently limiting this functionality to the standard library, until we grow a well-defined user extension mechanism (a-la `CREATE EXTENSION` in Postgres).

[1] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/blob/6f87f44fbc9854ba060994...
> A benefit of microservices is that each team can be responsible for releasing their services independently and without coordination with other teams.

Sounds almost sarcastic. How do you deliver API changes without alerting other teams?
Thanks - I was probably thinking of the 90, 70, and some of the other promised 360s.
Deno seems ideal for the now common use case of serverless JavaScript, erm, servers. It's hard to imagine the project superseding the prior art in other domains, however. Deno is a little too weird.
There are many uses for Ethanol like starting fires, some stoves, not to mention industrial uses. Alcoholic beverages are normally taxed with a 'sin tax' to discourage consumption. Goverments realized that people could just drink Ethanol that was sold for other uses, maybe mixed with stuff to make cocktails, but that circumvents the 'sin tax' i.e. tax avoidance.

So some countries sell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol, which is alcohol with additives to discourage consumption. Some countries limit themselves to just adding a foul taste and smell, while some add poisonous substances to it to make it toxic.
> ARM gets the short end of the stick here.

In terms of "if the deal fails", yes. If the deal succeeds, they made out like bandits.
> Meanwhile, green is used to represent decreases in stock value.

Okay. Now explain why the "chart decreasing" emoji is blue instead of green.
OK, the headline itself shows the bias in this article. No study, however large or well-conducted, ever "proves" anything. The study may support a hypothesis, but there may be further studies that get different results. No reputable scientist or researcher would ever claim that a single study constitutes proof. This is obvious to me, and I'm not even a scientist.
>Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings.

Only in some very limited aspects. "Oh, they can eat wild strawberries in winter" or "have access to modern technology whereas a medieval king didn't" and such.

The don't have the power of medieval kings, the don't have the wealth of medieval kings, they don't have the estates of medieval kings, the servants and free time of medieval kings, they certainly don't command the respect medieval kings had, they don't have many luxuries of medieval kings, and lots of other things besides. They also have to work shitty jobs (even two jobs), they can end up homeless and live in the streets (including out in the cold), a random cop can abuse them, etc.

There's more to "better quality if life than medieval kings" than modern medicine and gadgets...
I have a dumb question. If the telescope is always moving in an orbit around L2 and then also around sun, how does it focus at a single area for long durations ?
This seems, at best, an anecdotal and/or an arbitrary distinction about what qualifies as "Engineering". Software engineering, as an applied discipline both in name and in practice, has existed since at least the mid-to-late 1960's. And many of the orgs in those days which adopted that title normatively, employed many folks who were "focused and trained in their skills" (e.g. NASA) and worked alongside of those in the more classical engineering domains.

Speaking in my own experience, working closely with hardware/mechanical/electrical folks on a novel product line, they are exposed to a lot of the same subject matter covered in the article. Many of the tradeoffs explored there are absolutely relevant to the older engineering disciplines.
I believe it has one of the lowest job satisfaction of any white collar jobs. I've wondered that is folks didnt have the massive student loans to pay off early on if they would stick with it.
The cryptography that is in 'crypto' is not good cryptography
I strongly disagree with this. This is an approach to development that encourages an extremely limited and short term view on development that leads to low quality software and unhappy developers. It's also only remotely possible with a certain type of software.
Same with the built in Mail and Calendar apps in Windows. On my Mac I can connect to my NextCloud/Mail-in-a-box natively but on my gaming PC running Windows I had to install Thunderbird.
> if you compare the Galaxy S20 to the even older iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 will likely receive 5 years of OS updates compared to 1 year for Samsung

My galaxy note 10 (purchased 2 years ago) is still receiving updates.

In fact Samsung is saying they'll support most phones for 4 years while others are supported for 5:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295639/samsung-galaxy-d...
I like the measured pace they are taking with this. The cathedral has existed for centuries and will exist for centuries more. No need to rush and get it done in a few sprints or something like that.
Google FLoC is dead; long live Google Topics
Hard to overstate how exciting I find the fields of hypernetworks and metalearning. For good or for evil, this I feel is almost certainly how we create AGI. GNNs make perfect sense as a method of accomplishing it too -- after all, neural networks are just graphs anyways.

I don't believe AGI is going to conform to our rigid, symmetrical, boxy human-made architectures with their nice, neat flow patterns and powers-of-two factors everywhere -- those architectures work great for what they're designed to do, but achieving sentience/true intelligence just really doesn't feel like it's going to come out of a feedforward MLP, or even a transformer (in my opinion).

The most complicated and capable neural networks we know of are the organic, messy, squishy, yet organized electric meat lumps in our own skulls, produced by billions of years of being exposed to the same loss function over and over and over, but with unlimited ways to adapt in order to minimize that loss function. Nature makes awesome, fractally, insanely complex networks that we could never design by hand. I think it's only sensible to assume that AGI will work similarly.

Of course, this is all just armchair speculation. I'm not an expert, just an enthusiastic data scientist who thinks these next twenty years in AI are going to be a heck of a freaking ride.
We are running out of everything, fresh water, energy, sand, soil, and our food production and distribution chains are unsustainable and quite fragile.

This century long bull run managed to offset extreme poverty, but it destroyed the biosphere as a result, and left us with nothing to work with.

The world soon will be a big spiral of blood as we fight each other for what's left.

TLDR: No, we are not headed for a post-scarcity economy.
He used international dollars, which might be precisely what you’re looking for, in his last article (https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief) it is unclear if he used the same metric or not this time but I’d be very surprised if he didn’t, specially considering he references his old article several times.
> SoftBank / Arm / Nvidia made a submission to the UK competition authorities with a singularly pessimistic view of Arm’s prospects as a stand-alone company

They apparently want to sell the company and benefit from it together ... so it this surprising?
Alcohol is extremely useful for many things but some people will drink it if they find it. So they add denatonium to it to discourage that. Alcohols that are meant for people to drink are taxed more heavily, so adding denatonium puts it into a completely different category of product thereby avoiding all those taxes. Just like the way Sony avoided taxes by adding Linux support to the PS2 and PS3 which caused it to be classified as a different type of computer.
But would it? In most of the developed world health care is free, and it's more expensive than food, clothing & internet, and almost as expensive as shelter.
Nope, completely gone. I may as well have started from scratch the next time I looked at it.

It was my business. I was the idiot that signed us up for it - it was kinda out of necessity, as it was for the New York marathon, and their developers had evaporated on them two weeks before a critical deliverable - and we charged blood money for it.
I'm sad I can only upvote this once.
You seem to be saying that if we don't want to compute F(n), but just some numbers a, e such that F(n) ~ a*10^e, then we can do it faster than nlogn time. That's of course true.

However, that's a different problem than actually computing the n digits of F(n). Even computing the first n digits of ((1+sqrt5)/2)^n probably takes nlogn time.

You say "use the bits of n similar to power mod". I suppose you mean repeated squaring. But what happens in the last of the logn steps of that procedure?: You multiply two n/2 bit numbers.
Given reason #3, have you considered getting a product management internship? You'd get experience with the business that surrounds software development, which would be great background for creating your own software company some day.
In my experience very little of it is distro-specific, especially if you're on a distro that has similar components as Arch. I'm on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, which also uses systemd, etc and is a rolling distro with the latest versions of everything, so a lot of the wiki articles apply directly as long as I translate the package names.
To me SC3 is a lot like Subnautica: Below Zero. If you can convince yourself it has no relation to its predecessor it's actually a pretty good game.
Of course alcohol is a powerful solvent at any concentration, but there are definitely studies[1] that demonstrate 70% being a bit more effective at disinfecting.

[1]: https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/ss/rubbing-alcohol-uses
Electromagnet with a constant current running through it would do the job nicely I would think? Keep in mind that with the sun always shining where Webb is that power is not really their first constraint.
"The image of the lead-poisoned child as abnormal or neglected is not only wrong, but it was intentionally placed in the American psyche by the lead industry itself, which had a vested interest in shifting the blame from their products, said Rosner, co-author of the book "Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children."

. . .

In some of the more odious of their internal communications on the topic, a top official at the trade group representing lead paint manufacturers in the 1950s described lead poisoning as a problem "of the slums" confined to "Negro and Puerto Rican" children with "relatively ineducable" parents who could not be trusted to protect them, Rosner's research revealed."

https://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/2015/10/5_common_lead_po...
I hope all this information from the research gets captured digitally and shared openly as part of the effort. It would be fantastic to have that available to all for research or even just hobbyist reading.
I think Apple should buy ARM. Then they will own the entire iPhone and Mac tech stack -- right down to the ISA. It's hard to think of a more competent steward for the technology than Apple.
>I have at least one copy of Newsweek from the 80's with a picture of the frozen earth on the cover

I have at least one post on HN where everyone commented about how journalists don't know what they're writing about, get basic technical details wrong, and try to sensationalize everything because media is a business. You ever see that post?

on edit: to clarify not a post by me, just as the copy of Newsweek from the 80's was most probably not by you.
>Can people that want to and deserve to be scientists become one?

The problem with that is that it could always be treated as a subjective measurement. And who are you going to appoint for that? The people who are already in the system. Surprise, you have created (again) the perfect conditions for nepotism to arise.
Funnily enough, the Japanese word for "(business) deficit" is literally "red letters" (赤字): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E5%AD%97

(Wiktionary says it was borrowed from English - no idea if it's true.)
There is an easy solution to this problem.

Pass a new "right to repair" law, such that any OEM that halts software patches on any network-connected device for more than 6 months will be required to unlock bootloaders and publish technical specs.

Apple and Android will see enormous and wonderful community involvement if that were to happen, and congress could force it, should we motivate them.
I think on the contrary, contemporary culture doesn't care as much about legacy or image as other cultures in the past. I think it glorifies "hustle" and "profit" much more than legacy.
I'm referring to FTA

>Samsung did guarantee support for at least three “generations” of Android OS updates in 2020

The 4/5 year support is for security updates. I will correct that some samsungs are now receiving 5 years of security updates, I didn't realize that.
This whole post strikes me as somebody making up a world as he believes it ought to be and then suggesting advice for navigating that world, rather than the real one. For example:

> Always encourage engineers to show their work as quickly as possible

Yep, that sounds like great advice. On "paper", anyway. I tried to do that when I first started out, too. What I found was that communicating "this is just an early draft, it'll be better when I'm finished" was well-near impossible, no matter how hard I tried.
That's fascinating— thanks for pointing it out. I definitely assumed the issue was with the daemon itself, and not with the services it was trying to start.
While it isn't hosting your own mail, Nextcloud does have some nice webmail interfaces, like rainloop, that can be configured using any imap/smtp server, like a desktop mail application.

My hosting provider has hosted my email for 15+ years (with my own domain), but their webmail isn't super great, especially for my non-techy family. They mostly use the mail app on their iphone, but Rainloop through nextcloud made it really easy for them to check through the web.
Yes, because the government is generally bad at using capital and the ROI on higher tax rates reaches negative at some point, nevermind that it can print as much as it wants.
what drove you towards moving to central America?
OTOH, I have heard of the people who are moving to the sweatshops, that they fought the destruction of their traditional lands and sources of income and ways of life with tooth and nail. That has been historically true from the forced industrialization of British peasants all the way to today, where many of such forced migrations plays are still on (from China and India to Chile and all around Africa) and there are plenty of books on those lamenting their forced entry into sweatshop labor, slums, etc.
I dunnoh. IPv6 is pretty widely distributed at this point: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

On the other hand, RISC-V seems to be used so far primarily as a stalking horse to keep ARM in line.
Curious, can you elaborate on what are the issues of mutability in single-threaded code?
Yes it should be without ' if you see pages with that I will get it fixed.
I encourage you to read his old article https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief in which he talks about the cutout and what he did to minimize the effect. (He adjusts per purchasing power through time and location)
Proper deprecation procedures. you can document how you uniformly deprecate and remove APIs. This is a strength of using something like OpenAPI for documentation, or GraphQL, for instance. It is then the responsibility of a consumer to deal with these deprecation(s). On the most basic level you could also do versioning, though its not my recommendation

Document and set expectations accordingly. I've done this move before breaking apart a monolith into separate micro services and this is key. Spending more time on good documentation is generally a good idea regardless.

I'm assuming we're not talking about public facing APIs. That's a situation where versioning might make a lot more sense.
There are a lot of people in the USA without proper identity documentation, or who live under the identity of someone else.

I know brothers who share a passport and driving license, and do just one lot of taxes between them.

Tightening up identify verification laws will further exclude these people, and may be a net loss for the nation.
Your claims seem to be both racist and unfounded.
Irish employers to have at least 13 grounds to refuse remote working
Trivia. I ate green persimmons, but there is a trick. It --must-- be a persimmon from the correct cultivar (or a treated one). It doesn't worth it, but is perfectly doable. Somebody trying the same in a common persimmon will suffer the persimmoncalypse.
> It'd be great if they replaced the key with bogus words first before blurring to troll people, but somehow I doubt it.

This is what I do 99% of the time I use blur to censor information; just replace the text with, say, colorful words of the same length before blurring. Would be neat if there was an automated tool that could do something similar.
Ask HN: How would you detect the aether if it wasn't stationary?
In 1887, Michaelson & Morley did their famous interferometer experiment, which demonstrated there was no such thing as the luminiferous aether. Which, fine. The idea that there's a stationary substance through which everything transits seems a little absurd.

But things like entanglement and vacuum energy seem to suggest that there IS some kind of connection between atoms. So if the connections between the atoms and the atoms themselves are made of the same thing, how could you possibly detect it?
Basically, this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067824
I'm super bullish on Zig, but it's a bit early to bank on for production things as the language is still changing/being developed.

To give another example of where this came up: they were discussing using Zig for the Ruby JIT, but despite really liking Zig the team decided to go with Rust because of its maturity: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18481#note-21
> Make reporting of violations via the CFPB frictionless.

Totally agree.. but sending a debt validation letter is already pretty simple. In most cases you can send the scumbag collector a barely-modified form letter and that’s that. I’ve done this twice and it’s pretty painless, but in a perfect world, I wouldn’t be involved at all!

Banks need to be forced to stop considering

struct {
name,
address,
birthday,
ss_number,
other_public_info
}

…to be equivalent to a person, for the purpose of issuing loans. It’s total madness, and honestly I’m shocked that this kind of fraud isn’t even more common.

That and

struct { acct_no, routing_no }

…is enough to withdraw money from my bank account thru ACH! Also lunacy. How are banks allowed to be so crappy?

Legislation, plz.
If a company can actually get what they need, both short and long term, for much cheaper in the international market, then it should.

Buyer beware, though.
The SNES is also top loaded (like the Famicom), so wouldn't normally be a good drink surface.
For all the crap that Apple gets, I gave a friend my old iPhone XS Max purchased in December of 2018 that still gets updates, and doesn't seem to have any EOL warnings. Since the hardware doesn't appear to be showing any wear, I think there's a reasonable chance my friend will get two more years out of this phone.

I think 5-6 years is a fairly reasonable amount of time for nearly any computer, let alone something that lives in my pocket.
>release of highly-contagious, low-lethality strain should be in the pandemic playbook.

We could even blame it on wet markets ;)
> One problem, other comments hint on the same thing, is that poverty is not an absolute, it's relative.

Seems like you're just trying to redefine "poverty" to mean "income inequality". Income inequality is an issue that's worth tackling, but it's also important to recognize absolute standards of living conditions. We already have a term for income inequality, it's called income inequality. It's unclear why you want to redefine "poverty" to also mean "income inequality".

>poverty must be estimated with regard to access to the standards and niceties of the era

That's fine. Other commenters have mentioned tackling about starting to address "basic poverty" after we address "extreme poverty".
I'm red-green colorblind, and for this reason was never allowed in accounting at work. I kid, but it sure does surprise me that so much of the world uses red/green to visualize! Passive-aggressive fun fact: roughly 8% of men have some colorblindness.
Chart-decreasing is mostly blue, but sometimes red and orange. Google had green for a while, but changed it.[1]

[1] https://emojipedia.org/chart-decreasing/