skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife was an elementary school teacher. She worked 7am-4pm, then came home had dinner and time with the family. After our son went to bed, she'd spend 8pm-11pm grading papers and working on lesson plans for the following week. She also spent time on the weekends developing lesson plans. That's a nine hour work day, plus three (or more) hours most evenings. That's easily a 60+hr work week.

Ohh, and there were no breaks during the work day. Most days she was required to be supervising/helping kids in the lunchroom during her "lunch break", so she couldn't really sit down to eat her own food. Good luck finding a time to use the restroom.

There are no vacation days. You can't say, "I'd like Friday off because my son has an event on Saturday and we need to travel there the day before".

If you were sick, you were required to find your own replacement from a list of substitutes that the school provided.

There are no public employee unions in our state (North Carolina). She made low $40k when she quit. Per-hour it was less than minimum wage. I've always made double or triple her salary in Tech, for half the hours.

The summers are "vacation", but they're also unpaid. She was only paid for 10 months out of the year. Ohh, and she had mandatory teacher workdays over the summer (unpaid), which were essentially 3-4 days of all-day training. We couldn't just leave for vacation.

Fast food is really a better gig. You can leave the work at work when the day is done, and it pays better too.
It really doesn't. I tried it again just yesterday and they don't support having multiple screens on Wayland, somehow. I want to switch to Wayland, but no, NVIDIA still doesn't work yet
So the base pay was 185, now 350k

Doesn't really make much difference, unless you were hiring finance bros. The total comp is what mattered.
"More people have analyzed it than I have, but..."

I parsed this more as" "Other people have analyzed it more than I have, but ..." or just "people have analyzed it more than I have, but ..."

I think it's just a misplaced word vs. the other theories presented. Hence why it's easy to listen/read past.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085639
This weekend I found the dry beans from last summer's minimal harvest had grown mold, and had to dump them all in the compost. Initially I felt like it had all been a waste of time and effort, but when I thought about how much fun we had digging, planting, weeding, and picking, I didn't regret it at all. (And the compost will turn into dirt to enjoy next year!)
> Proposing this seems less likely than just researching Star Trek replicators to reduce the need to buy food or something.

The problem with that is, without UBI, replicators don't solve the problem. The corporation that invents such a thing would get rich and charge the poorest to use it.

We currently HAVE enough food, shelter, and health care as a society to cover everyone, but the efficiency/productivity gains haven't sufficiently sufficiently benefited everyone. UBI is one proposed option for correcting that situation.

As for the actual cost - just as an exercise for trimming, without going into excessive detail:

* About 80 million of the 330 million in the US are under 18[1]. Let's assume 4 year olds don't need UBI. Maybe there's a childcare credit, maybe not, but for the sake of NOT encouraging parents to have kids just for the paycheck, let's start UBI at 18+ years old

* About half of US households make over $75k right now[2]. 33% make over 100k. I'm handwaving a bit here, but let's say the tax changes to support UBI result in increased taxes, and the "breakeven" point is somewhere around the 75k mark (i.e., above 75k household income - which would be 87k for a 1 person home, or 99k for a 2 person home, with the UBI - there's enough taxed off that the household is paying as much or more in taxes than they get from UBI).

With those two tweaks, you're down to 125 million people or less that are getting more than they put in. And that comes to about 1.25T USD. And... if you look at our spending trends[3], that 7T USD number for 2021 you quoted already includes 1.6T in "income security". So it might actually be possible to hit UBI with the current budget/deficit by rearranging how the money is distributed.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...

[3] https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...
The checkboxes allow detailed control for those who want it and provide some easy to understand info for what consent is required. Skipping them in favor of some generic "yes to all" is a dark pattern
I loved the general lego sets I had as a kid. One year my parents had gone on a short vacation to europe (germany?) and returned with an "expert lego system" kit of a front loader. Once built you could raise/lower and dump the bucket. Man I loved that thing also. One can like both types of "kits".
> Last summer, Ms. Kelton called inflation a temporary sign of
“growing pains.” By the fall, she painted it as a good problem
to solve, compared with a continued weak economy.

Framing things positively always helps, yes.

I'm awaiting a time when more people will have had the epiphany that the "problem" of a weak economy might actually be the solution to the biggest problem the planet is facing right now.
> Which is not to say that what this book teaches is not useful, but I wouldn't go to it looking for best practice and robust software engineering techniques.

It's actually demonstrating the iterative style of software development, which has come to dominate the way we develop software. Though the problems are, generally, "small" so it's not a full-scale application of it. Which is also nice as a teaching text. Instead of showing a fully-formed solution, he walks through the ideas of solutions, identifies problems (which the reader may or may not have noticed themselves), and then resolves them (usually with much more general forms of the program than the previous versions, as well). This is very helpful because seeing the thought process can convey a lot more than just seeing the final solution.
Always good to see a .codes blog! Mine is qubyte.codes.
That is true. Proton is a pragmatic solution. But it hardly a satisfactory solution, and I worry that it is not sustainable solution either. I do not really have a horse in the run personally, as I am not a Linux user (my platform of choice is macOS), but as a GPU programming enthusiast I dislike anything that gives Microsoft more power.

And of course, let us not mistake Valve's intensions. They couldn't care less about Linux users. They are simply leveraging Linux as a low-cost platform to get into the console business.
This seems like a real benefit to Linux. Just installing it on a new partition would be a tricky proposition on Windows. In Linux it is the obvious solution. As an added bonus, you could look into doing some of the latency tuning stuff and not have to worry about messing up your work partition.
Wasn't Mordechai Vanunu the original Edward Snowden?
I certainly had acquaintances who wanted to abolish the police, and were very upset to hear people claiming the slogan meant anything else.
> "With slaves, however, who were stakeholders in the system,"

"With slaves, however, who's stakes were forcibly held by others in the system," FTFY
What’s funny is the whole field of Big Five is fundamentally a fraud because it has both correlation and dimensionality problems.

And using it to describe Nick, who apparently took down another positive psychology finding, is ironically funny.
Wow. Much bigger differences than I was expecting.

Anybody know how software support is looking for 64Bit? OS support is good but presumably the software itself needs to be arm 64 compiled too?
These are some I have in my Miniflux instance:

- Benjojo https://blog.benjojo.co.uk

- Julia Evans https://jvns.ca

- Tania Rascia https://www.taniarascia.com

- Fabien Sanglard https://fabiensanglard.net

- Jeff Geerling https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog

- Go360 https://www.go350.com

- Bartosz Ciechanowski https://ciechanow.ski

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This is very cool. In a past life, I built a quant + HFT MM trading firm where we did a lot of spread trading. Always thought something like this was needed! Good work
It depends whether you consider drafted soldiers to be free.
I personally think hacker news hasn’t fallen victim as much mainly because it’s so small in comparison.

I feel like once any community starts growing faster than a certain rate, its core focus inevitably dilutes because there are not enough older members to impress the culture of the community onto newer members.
This works to an extent. You have to be careful to make sure you aren't just softening history with a "product of their time" argument.

A good example is US slavery. You might mistakenly fall under the understanding that slavery was just a common and well accepted practice. Yet, from the founding of the US and earlier it was HIGHLY controversial.

You can't just take the perspective of the slave owner, you must also consider that abolitionists have been around at the same time periods.

It's complicated and messy, but, IMO, entirely right to condemn slavery and slave owners as a modern reader. Just as you'd condemn someone running a con or a ponzi scheme in the same era.
With all due respect, those who operated in the passenger transportation industry before (taxis, towncars, etc.) already knew this was a horrible business (read: low margin) with extremely high liabilities.
Apple has a revenue of $365 billion last year. No matter how you spin it - and I was being wildly optimistic saying every adult is going to buy the most expensive iPhone - Netherlands will never be more than 1% of Apple’s total revenue. An “entire” country that is less than half the population of Texas wouldn’t even be considered “material”.
The organization itself has become very user hostile as well which I think has played a large part in the overall quality drop. There's a reason everyone links to old.
You would think so but in my personal experience people massively over estimate how competent they are in a language. Even more so when they haven't actually used it in a while (let's say >1 year).

IMHO blindly asking for N+ years experience is a waste of time and puts a lot of people off applying for the position that may be a great fit but feel they are not experienced enough.
I would prefer to fund it via a land value tax, which is seen as the most efficient form of taxation due to having no deadweight loss.

Like the other commenter said, the concept of a UBI is already practically the reality in countries with strong welfare states where no one technically needs to work. We just disguise it with all this means-testing because as a society we're still devoted to this pro-work capitalist grind mental model of everyone needing to make a buck to justify their existence.
> I’m 40 and have lived in the US my entire life. I grew up in a very rural area, went to college in a small town, and now live in a tiny urban apartment

My situation is the same as you except where you veer off the deep end and "I have been anti-car my whole life". I did learn to drive, not sure if I can still do it, but I never liked driving. however, I am not 'anti car'. some people enjoy different things or have different things going on in their life, stop this anti-hate bs.
I wonder about early bronze age (eg Egyptian old kingdom) "management theories."

IDK if I'm right, but I feel like the Roman era is not so different from the current era, or at least near-modern eras. They had accounting, greek philosophy, a legal system, insurance companies and a class hierarchy that was a lot like later periods...

In the early bronze age, money doesn't even exist. Many other social constructs that we take for granted were probably also missing. I feel the same way about pre-colonial mexico. Large, hyper-urban societies that were institutionally completely different from us. I suspect the "god king" thing might play roles that we have a hard time imagining.

You can drop in "staff" in place of "slaves" and this reads totally legibly to the modern mind. That's because the Romans were a lot like us. I don't think that means everyone was.
Albania doesn’t have either. Scams or thefts are rare. It is a very tourist friendly country as it gets almost 2.5x tourists a year compared to its population.

People are very welcoming.
It's possible to create an IPSec + firewall based on the Click Modular Router[0] and run this on top of Unikraft[1].

[0]: https://github.com/kohler/click/wiki/IPsecEncap (and other IPSec* elements)

[1]: https://github.com/unikraft/app-click

It could make for an interesting tutorial with a full Click-based IPSec router though! :)
StarlingX 6.0, the Edge-Computing Cloud Stack Arrives
You still need a fish catching machine. In the literal sense. Despite all the innovations, we still need fisherman and sailors. Even if we have a fish catching machine who/what will make the fish catching machine? And there are still tons of other automation problems and a fish catching machines isn't even the hardest one.

The automation challenge is often conveniently underplayed, while it's an insanely hard problem. You might as wel say a wizard will do it.

Will it be possible some day in the future? Probably? In a relevant time frame? Probably not.
> - proper support for S3, very low S3 power consumption

Can you measure it for those of us, who are interested in finding exact numbers? You can use script - https://github.com/savchenko/powerdrain

For example on Fedora35-Linux 5.16(T14s AMD Gen1), I get following numbers:

Feb 07 12:13:22 weathertop systemd-sleep[5438]: [INFO] Discharge rate: 0.94741 W/h.

So basically a fully charged laptop will discharge itself when left in sleep for 2 days or so.
The importance of talking to customers before building a product
Hey everyone,

I'd like to write something about the importance of talking to customers as rightly taught by Y Combinator.

At Unfake, we've been doing this since past 1 month or so. We are glad we did so otherwise we'd have ended up spending our time & money on developing something which would've turned out to be totally useless!

After receiving a good amount of feedback, we came up with http://blockpay.tech ! A platform using which you can send cryptocurrencies & NFTs to anyone even if they don't have a wallet.

Please share your thoughts & feedbacks on the same & consider signing-up if you find this interesting.

Here's to the new beginnings!

Peace.
I would submit that this is more an issue of trust than it is an issue of forcing client machines into compliance. Because of the industries persistent belief that anti-cheat is somehow an effective strategy, let alone a morally acceptable one, has meant that development of systems that develop player trust in others has totally atrophied.

This patterns of thinking "Well I'll just download a binary onto my clients machine and force it into compliance, then I can throw all of them into a big pot and they'll all mix just fine!" Is a kind of persistent insanity that is leading to your woes, more than it is the lack of a stiffer boot to land on the necks of client machines.

"If we just control the platform"
"If we just control the hardware"
"If we just control the software"
"If we just control everything".

"And what of tools to moderate bad actors?"
"Eh? Sure, here's a kick function."
Am curios if the Google founders were frugal in their early days or not..

BTW, a frugal startup is better any day than a startup that blows up all its cash on unimportant activities and subsequently closes shop.
'Frugality' is an Amazon core value.
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New spinal cord stimulation study puts people with paralysis on their feet again
There never was a technical limitation, matte coatings were a deliberate design choice and continue to be. Maybe some people like the "pop" of a glossy display but the rest of us don't like to suffer from glare and reflections while we work.
They feel a bit more orthogonal to me, given that unikernels are about sharing a VM hypervisor, whereas containers are about safely sharing a Linux kernel.

They're solving similar problems in terms of reducing image size, startup time, security surface area, and so on. But the mechanism is quite different, so it feels like basically none of the tooling will translate. Like, where is the Kubernetes of unikernel deployments? It would have to be built from scratch, and would probably end up looking more like Terraform than like the Kubernetes of today.
I think if you add more STEM people will use mathematical models incorrectly even more because they'll feel more confident about understanding the tools they don't.
No, it is not. It is supposed to point out that TED has succeeded at its actual purpose - just not the purpose we were led to believe.
Apple in 2021
I tried out a new thinkpad recently. I had heard, here and on other sites, that they're the best laptops for running linux, but I experienced a number of issues when trying to run recent versions of ubuntu and pop os, including:

- Hotkeys, like brightness adjustment, not working on some versions

- Wifi not working (I found a driver on github that I wasn't able to get working)

- Really short battery life, even after fiddling with sleep mode in the bios

- Choppy touchpad controls

I might have had better luck with an intel model (this one was AMD), or with a slightly older model that's had more time to be tested and supported, but it definitely wasn't the "just works" experience I was hoping for
> "The WITCH engineer was just unwise enough to be born in India right? Probably went to the top schools there, has an MBA and a masters in compsci... Just... Indian, so worth less for some reason."

The comparison is between FAANG FTE and WITCH contractor. This isn't to do with nationality or birthplace. There are many Indian FAANG FTEs just as there are many American and European WITCH contractors.
Ohh, and yes. We spent plenty ($100's) of our own money on school supplies at Wal-mart and teacher supply stores. The kids also had an extensive supply list that parents were asked to purchase, but it was never enough.
This is of course exactly what Thiel, rhetorical genius that he is, wants you do to: perform a sufficient number of mental backflips and other cognitive gymnastics as necessary to obfuscate the true import of what he's plainly saying.

Neither of those seem to me to obviously translate to "We'd all be better off if women's suffrage never happened".

That's because I'm starting with what he said. Whereas it seems you're starting with what you would have preferred he had said.
given the target market, and the ubiquity of the thinkpad supply chain, it's a somewhat baffling decision not to use one of the models of thinkpad keyboards. Given they're already in production I'm sure if you went to one of the factories and said "we want 100k keyboards for the X230" or something that you'd get turned down. It's not like Framework is going to sell 100 million laptops anyway, I'm sure it's something that could be accommodated.
KPMG adds Bitcoin, ether to corporate treasury
Do you get a sign on bonus thats like 50% of TC for the first two years at other companies? Because thats what amazon does.
No worries, happy to concretize this: the really easy example would be shoes. How much would you pay for just a right shoe or just a left shoe? A lot less than the pair, since you might not be able to find the other shoe in the right size, condition, etc. Same with the seller - they don't want to be stuck trying offload a single left shoe.

In stocks, A might be a company you invested in and B some ETF that you bought as a hedge for A. What if you sell out of A, and then the price of the ETF drops? There's value in being able to liquidate the full position - the single stock plus the hedge - at once.
It's not working for the whole nation in El Salvador. Those people there are dependent on remittances from their relatives in the US. Since the incoming remittances are controlled by de facto mafia, they were hoping that bitcoin might be a way to avoid fishy middlemen.

However they are exposed to extreme volatility. If your income is so low that you need to rely on relatives abroad, then mere 10% price dip could be deadly for you, suddenly you cannot pay rent, etc.

A safer solution for them might be stablecoin transfers on some other quick and cheap chain. It has its own set of downsides and risks, but they might be relatively low compared to huge fx risk of BTC.
The companies expanded the acope of their activities, from physical to virtual. Apple’s policies remained the same.

As to covering all the important things in life, it’s only an issue for things that are 1. Not physical, or “content”, and 2. Not available through the browser.

Can’t think of anything important in life that you HAVE to pay the 30% on, but I’m sure there’s something.
the problem with studies like this, and what makes it useless practically, is that right at the outset it's premised on the liberal-conservative dichotomy, a made-up linearization of the complex sociopolitical positions of complex sociopolitical beings. that's about as meaningful as tarot cards or horoscopes for understanding said sociopolitical beings. it's performative and coercive rather than expository and informative.

when we break out of such dichotomies, we realize that people hold all sorts of views, and each and every person is a bundle of contradictions, pride, and ambition, all mixing together in strange and unpredictable ways to form our sociopolitical environment. there is literally no true 'liberal' or 'conservative' out in the world. these are constructed poles of a false dichotomy.

and as such, this is junk food for people who want to believe they're better/smarter/nicer/whateverer than those 'other' people, and for the powerful, this kind of dichotomization collapses complexity to simplify their work of holding and expanding power, principally as a distraction from those machinations.
Lightform's Sunset
I feel phones are an inferior input device and their broad adoption at the expense of full computers (with keyboard/mouse) is a shame.

Phones "just work" but phone screens are too small and touch keyboards too imprecise to do any long-form typing on it. I think the adoption of the phone as the most popular interface for the web has made the quality of software interfaces decline, and has made things like forums less mainstream, both of which are a shame.
Amazon isn't immune. You can't "buy" Kindle books through the Amazon app on iOS.