skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can view that in their quartely report, as they are a public company: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

- 15,49 dollar per European user

- 48,03 dollar per US user

Where are the privacy regulations the strongest?
>> In many ways, high energy prices are a positive thing for society (in the long run).

If you don't mind, I wonder if you might expand on this? For me it seems a bit blithe. For instance, we know that higher energy prices cascade into many, if not most, consumer end items, and so I think it follows this decreases the standard of living generally.

I understand the important consideration of negative externalities, and how fossil fuels negatively impact 3rd parties (the world generally/climate change). I think the economic argument that there should be a carbon tax to account for these externalities is quite right. This is true regardless of climate change. So let's assume for arguments sake, we're going to tax above and beyond that to account for climate change as well.

Are we hoping then, by hiking the cost, it ushers in a new discovery of lower cost energy, with fewer externalities? And if this turns out to be the case, then these austerity measures if you like, turn out to be transient, and the temporary lower standard of living sacrifice is made for the betterment of posterity. Or is it simply we must accept a lower standard of living permanently lest we allow climate change to continue unabated, as it were?

Sorry if this distracts from the main point you were making.
215 / 5 = 43 weeks of work. 9 weeks vacation?

I used 4 weeks, and by my experience that's generous (not talking about paid leave - all the freelancers I know are workaholics and don't take much leave, but maybe that's a US thing).

5*48 = 240 days, which works out to around 84000 EUR. Or 120,000 EUR - 30%.

Regardless, 700 EUR/day seems in the ball-park for a generic all-around developer.
Heh, as a salaried dev who gets 1700 - 1800 Euros per month (so around 90 Euros per day) after taxes in Latvia, some of the numbers in this thread are pretty sobering, even if you take the costs of being self employed or taxes into account.

If you take the run of the mill Java dev salary here, the net value is somewhere between 900 - 3000 Euros or so, across all levels of seniority [1]. Really makes one consider the benefits of working for companies in other countries, assuming that there are no cultural or time zone issues that cannot be dealt with.

Or, you know, to acquire skills that are high in demand but relatively low in supply.

[1] - https://www.algas.lv/en/salaryinfo/information-technology/ja...
Couldn't this line of reasoning also be extended to plants? Why is it wrong to eat a hamburger but not to mow your lawn or treat a bacterial infection? Surely, if all killing is equally wrong, then how can we go on living?

One could even claim to be righteously executing the murderous cow because it spends all day maiming and murdering innocent plant matter.
Is there a website or any other resource that provides a consolidated list of similar discounts? Could do with one for Chick-Fil-A or Bojangles.
I mean, that's a pretty common usage of enums, isn't it?

TestSomething(T1 & T2)
You can "kind" of do off-chain with blockchain, simply trade the private keys in a back alley somewhere.
I'm not seeing DataEase!

Happy days...
I grew up the same - just replace the AppleII with a C64. A box just just switch on and another world is instantly waiting for your your input. Tried to figure out something similar in our days, using it to teach our kids. The closest I could find - and I am perfectly happy with it - is a Rasperry Pi with Pythons Idle programming environment. Just start it up, type anything and get instant gratification. Cheers from Germany
Yeah but, is that because it gets a chance to mutate because there's no effective vaccine?
I’m furious about the existence of inflation. I think it should really be called monetary debasement instead of inflation. Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin in part to provide an alternative inflation free money option.

Why am I being naive or foolish to be furious about the existence of inflation? Is it a good thing that I simply misunderstand?

I am genuinely curious. Please help me understand.
This is what infuriates me about those so quick to criticize the "personal footprint" concept.

All of these things are done so that you can be provided with cheaper consumer goods. It's not some entity entirely divorced from your own complicity.
Yeah but this falls into similar territory.

Do you choose ASP.NET MVC? ASP.NET Razor Pages? Blazor? ASP.NET Web API + Angular/React/etc?

I think this article is basically saying "stick to the boring stuff that does what you need out of the box". What is that in .NET land though?
There are other possibilities than full collapse of society. A simple one is that your possesions are siezed.
Equality is meaningful only if at least two case operations are always non-blocking. This is rare in practice.

In fact, in practice, sometimes, I do hope one specified case has a higher priority than others if they are all non-blocking.
How could you possibly server personalized ads without tracking?
Interesting. I feel the exact opposite. I don't really care about content anymore, it's really just mind numbing drudgery. There's a reason there's a meme about getting addicted to HN and doing "deep work" with "digital minimalism".

In recent times I've cared more and more about what my friends and family are doing, because those are the people I'm connected with in actuality, in real life.
The First Mass Produced Automatic Transmission [video]
Yes, but that would change the intended meaning of the headline.
It's a good idea to make a service that claims to help you be cheap.

Duolingo doesn't have any intrinsic claim to take up a large space in people's lives, so it might be a good idea (if their goal is to help people learn languages) to remain as tiny as possible while being effective over some threshold. Then it would easily fit in people's schedules.

Their motivation seems to be engagement with the app, not language learning, and I make this judgement by noticing that engagement tools have changed over time, but language learning has not (visibly).
Bourbaki themself wrote a review on Amazon?

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Well, it didn't show Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, or Docs. All of which are Google apps available on the phone.
After the ScotWind giveaway, it's widely expected that water will be next.
Yeah I basically agree with that. I think trends in building, and other shifts in preferences for housing also drive a lot of this.
> If chargebacks are easy and the middleman (PayPal, etc.) tends to side with the buyer, would you take the risk of putting up your goods for sale?

The answer is yes for almost all businesses I've seen.
And once the dopamine shots are done, there is no way back unless the parents are very mindful. It would be only decades later, when they are at our age (30/40) that they realized that something could be changed back then.

In reality I see many parents actively feed kids with dopamine shots because it "quiets the kids".

TBH I don't know what I can do. Even as both my wife and I are aware of the situation, in daycares and schools they simply feed those stuffs too, maybe with an educational bent, but still dopamine shots underlied.
I think this is a symptom of Japan being more focused on enjoying life and it's aesthetics than incessantly "innovating". I'm American, I love America, but I think America gets this wrong. We're obsessed with speed and progressing with diminishing returns. When was the last time we as a country focused on being happy and enjoying what little life we have - finding joy in the little things like fax machines, rather than the wasteful pursuit of always being on top?
US tests of robotic patrol dogs on Mexican border prompt outcry
I've noticed they stopped showing ads from actual businesses. Instead, it was sponsored posts from individuals self-promoting for purely vain reasons as opposed to some commercial reason.
Are there that many industries where consumer choice would encourage companies to make those kinds of pro-humanity choices? I'd like to buy electronics that aren't manufactured in part by children but it isn't like companies advertise whether they do that or not. So outside of occasional investigative journalism or assuming that they (or one of their suppliers) probably do what choices am I left with?
Once the transaction goes through (i.e. not preemptively blocked), you are at the mercy of the bank. Most of the time it works, but I have friends' stories of losing several thousand dollars on a chequing account due to fraud and being unable to convince their bank that they deserve their money back.
I have taught dozens of companies and hundreds of people these tactics.

That said only people that need to understand tactics this strict are those storing VC levels of value.

For an individual just buy a Trezor or a Ledger and follow the point and click instructions. It is no harder than traditional online banking.
Yeah, I think I caught that on later reading and I fully agree. There is a certain amount of luck in any given game of Into the Breach, but it isn't a luck-based game. After I got good at it, I never encountered a situation that I felt was impossible due to luck, only because I'd made bad choices somewhere along the line. Pretty much the same praise (and complaint, re: achievements and luck based unlocks) for FTL.
Grab one of these:
The C64
https://www.amazon.com/C64-not-machine-specific/dp/B08GMTJYX...

Games pre-installed (and you can add your own) plus you can boot into BASIC.
Found the Hobbesian
"This suggests the rouble is 52.1% undervalued."

It could also suggest Russian people don't like Big Macs as much as US Americans do, which I can confirm. A price reflects not only exchange rates but also supply and demand.
Do people even use Facebook anymore? Who cares? (Serious question)
I was blowing things up at your age. Became a chemist, then changed to brewer, then hacker. Go for whatever is your thing.
Well, theoretical studies teach you about navigating, managing and creating complex structures;

life teaches you to distrust and verify all appearances.
I don't think kids today would be as interested in an Apple II today as we were as kids. The games and things they can do on a computer now are far beyond that and it just doesn't hold their interest.

My kids have done some basic programming in scratch, which I think is a good place to start. I also once set up godot with a simple open source game that they could edit (change sprites and adjust parameters like speed/size etc). They enjoyed that. I think once they want to start doing something more advanced, something like roblox or minecraft modding might be a good place to get their interest. Shadertoy/GLSL might be another fun thing to start with at more a high school level.
We published a 5% win, but it was really closer to 10% (for amd64). We were conservative in our marketing. The arm64 register ABI (which will be in 1.18 [March]), is showing performance improvements of over ≥ 15. (Rob Pike saw 20% on some of his stuff.)
Anecdotally that's the case in Brazil. McD is a lower-middle class and up place. McD in Brazil is actually not that bad in terms of quality. It doesn't have the bad rep it has in the US.
If you're actually interested in the subject, a good way to familiarize yourself with the current state of PHP is to run through something like https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-8-from-scratch. It should give you a good idea of the current state of PHP, what educational resources look like, along with a taste of the most popular PHP framework out there.

These conversations always tend to go the same way; someone complains about PHP and then later admits it's based on their experience 5-10+ years ago. PHP has come a long way and is worth checking out if you're into web development.
That makes a lot of sense if you wanted to generalize, but I'm sure there are numerous exceptions to that theory.
Not even close. We need more programmers to write javascript to make websites even slower.
70s? I started working in the 90s at $4.25 an hour... 1993 I think?
Ticket: #1006786 – Harassment and signal squelchening [pdf]
A reasonable parsing at the time of the article I suppose (2016), but not today: Trader Joe (Joe Coulombe) cannot possibly own warehouses, as he died in 2020.
You can't. They will have friends who have access to those devices, plus daycares play programs and schools sometimes "require" a tablet. I don't know TBF.
Would be good news and an improvement to our society!
This is a strange, myopic argument.

The moral quandary around factory farms does not generally stem from how quickly abattoirs perform their job, as it is economically prudent to kill livestock quickly. There is not much incentive to treat them well beforehand.
Protection from infection is sort of like cleaning up a spill on your doorstep. Curing an active infection is more like cleaning up after someone deliberately blew dirt throughout your whole house, and hid some extra in nooks and crannies.
This isn’t really true though, NestJS for example is very opinionated and similar.

The issue is more that Node and JavaScript in general is too popular and there are way more options whereas ruby is rarely used for non rails work.
No, no, I meant the "11% more calories... which is an 11% difference".
This is a very long and very detailed five part introduction, disassembly and reassembly video about the General Motors Hydra-Matic 4-speed Automatic Transmission, originally designed in the 1930s and first incorporated into a car in 1940.

I definitely recommend watching it on 1.5x speed.

More details about this transmission here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydramatic
In a strange way the adoption of JS SPA's has made the "thinking-not-required" backend frameworks like Rails and Django less "opinionated" and thus requiring more thinking.

I don't know about the Ruby/Rails ecosystem but in Django there are now quite a few different ways to deliver the "same" user functionality depending on how much one splits the load between front / backend, whether and how much it is structured around DRF etc.
Right, front end on S3 built in something like React, and API/backend on other services. There are established patterns like https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat... and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/serverless-mu..., but looking at the diagrams supports OP's point: "it so much harder to create apps in the JavaScript ecosystem."
Too seriously answer about ageism to what is probably an unserious question, no. In fact, I've seen plenty of late (30 and 40+) career changers have happy, solid 2nd careers as programmers. I can't say I remember anyone shifting into a career in programming at 50+ (at least not since the very beginning of my career) but I have seen people move over to programming adjacent roles like PM, sales, or people management (typically within a company.)

I'll caveat all the with I've never lived in the bay area and that particular mileu seems to be "special".
> Maybe, but I'm not sure a working professional adult is an ad-clicker, and I'm not sure that the ads they click on can con them into doing something they wouldn't normally do very often.

As a working professional adult, who has access to many others working professional adults, I assure you, ads work.

You’re simplifying ads to a barebones click to rate exchange. Ads are way more subtle than that.
I believe the current state of affairs has governments holding a monopoly on lotteries and actively promoting and marketing said lotteries to the financially illiterate. The odds of coming out ahead are wildly better in crypto vs lotteries. Perhaps we should put an end to government-controlled scams such as lotteries before claiming that regulated industries can do no wrong?
I concur. At some point I started looking for the best contest over caring about yahoo classmates engaging in political wars. It’s entertainment for them but not for me.
Oops, I thought the 90% was referring to HPV.
This feels like doctors recommending smoking in 1950ties! Maybe it is a survivor bias, weak cells die sooner, so only measured brain cells are super strong :)
Interesting, that might be it. I already dislike serif fonts because I find they have too much complexity. So the simplicity of this font might be what draws me to it and is disliked by others.

I also do enjoy the rounded ends.
Chernobyl doesn't seem like a great example of failing nuclear power. It looks a lot more like crappy design and foolish incompetence.
Looks fine on my crappy Android phone
I anticipate a slightly different model:

- Macs: no change.

- iGadgets (phones, tablets, headsets, watches): will remain per-person

- "shared" devices (appletv, homepod, carplay, home iot devices) will take their settings from the per-person devices and will allow multiple per-person devices simultaneously. So the speaker will play songs / respond to requests from people whose phones are on the LAN; the car will take its default settings from the driver (how will it know?) but the passenger can control the map etc.
That's not accurate. Djano encourages, but does not mandate, a particular structure. Incompetent developers will always find a way to subvert whatever sensible defaults are at hand, which is the case you are faced with.
WhatsApp has competitors that in Telegram/Signal etc. that are financially stable, offer more features and security, and with the mood of the government right now they would absolutely be prevented from purchasing. They would destroy WhatsApp in weeks if they did that.

Amazon is fine and doesn't need to grow. Facebook is in danger and growth was already priced in. Now it's not.
It stops people consuming energy they don't really need, and it makes people more likely to consume renewable energy which is often more costly.
I had the exact same idea but, I am to lazy to market it, plus it's ridiculous.

https://opensea.io/collection/real-life-solid-colors
I think the use of faxes is related to the Japanese obsession with personal business relationships. You can't open a bank account without an introduction to the bank manager. You can't rent a cellphone without having a man in a suit hand-deliver it to you, show you how it works, and remind you that it needs to be returned promptly. Faxes are more personal than e-mail; you know that the fax you receive is the result of somebody hand-feeding a piece of paper that they physically signed into a machine, and it went over physical wires connected to a telephone. There's also the Japanese spiritual tradition that every object has a spirit; it's hard to feel spiritually connected to software.
Yes, they are different, const values doesn't allocated in memory NOW. But who cares? Most gophers just think const values are immutable values.

I mean we could let some const values allocated in memory.
The Russians don't like eating at McDonalds in general. Many consider it as unpatriotic.

So the low price simply reflects the low demand.
Show me your UI and I will tell if you made a reasonable choice or a mistake.
Food is not software. It is not that formulaic. This will never consistently produce good results.
> as opposed to actually having it

Like C or C++ do? :)
TL;DR CBN not THC or CBD
I really love the ui. I didn't know that qt quick can be used by rust this way!
Indeed. They want to correlate the user through their Google account.
The obvious one is that you can ignore the complete text of the Act and see that there were no nationwide investment banking emergencies from the time of its enaction through to the removal. The closest that happened was the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund collapse, which was not run by an investment bank. That failure is on the SEC. And in the 20ish years since, we got the Great Recession.

G-S was pretty simple in scope: commercial banks could not be investment banks. Commercial banks are stable and boring and have low but predictable profits. Investment banks are either stable and small with low profits or wildly exciting with high variability, and the stable ones get purchased by the exciting ones in boom years.
What don't you like about it? Maybe there are some options you'd be interested in trying.
Machine learning–accelerated computational fluid dynamics
And then step into the Star Trek transporter. :)

You're obliterated, then perfectly reassembled on the other side. Is that still "you", "subjectively"? Should you or others even care about that question? And, if not, damn, that's ego-killing af.
So a vaccinated, fat, smoking and drinking motorcyclist does more for the health sector than a slim yoga practitioner and health food enthusiast who decides against vaccination? What could go wrong?
There must be an internet law whereby the moment you criticise something about JS there’ll be a reply saying “x does this” where x is something you’ve never heard of before
The next stage is when everyone realizes the most upvotes go to whoever can come up with the best one-line zinger and the comment sections become improv night.
I enjoy building SPAs, but I often wonder if my joy comes from having built something, or is it just seeing the little virtual ball make it's way to the end of the overly-complex Rube Goldberg-like contraption of cloud services, NPM packages, bundlers and frameworks my product is built upon.
> it certainly is not direct democracy

You appear to make up your own extreme definition of what the words "direct democracy" should be and what they should mean. But it's not like that. There are ways words and condepts are commonly used. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
I give you Google, the app:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google/id284815942

Google search, in an iOS app. Not everyone uses it, sure, but has over 341k reviews. Facebook, as a point of comparison, only has about 4x more reviews at 1.2M. 4x is a lot, but it's also a lot less than I'd expect over something primarily used in the browser.
My IMHO IANAL but having implemented GDPR several times:

Most companies will create European subsidiaries (Facebook, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, ...) to take the money but fullfilling their obligations. They will not let the money go to someone else.

If you take a look at how Apple bended itself over in China, there is a lot of imagination on what companies are willing to do for the money.
That kind of thinking leads to conclusions like "voting is worthless", or "throwing litter in the bin rather than street makes no difference".

> exactly zero impact on the problem

Exactly not zero. Small, perhaps, and smaller than global initiatives, but lots of coordinated small actions at scale do make a difference.
I'm heartbroken that covid killed the all-day breakfast menu. And I always keep an eye out for the McRib...
>FB could surely muster the engineering resources to create a search engine that matches what Google has today.

I wouldn't be so sure. Bing is an excellent counter example to that statement. And not just because (from my experience) it doesn't produce the same quality of results. It's also about user adoption. MS built a reasonable, if not clearly superior alternative to Google and spend enormous sums of money marketing it, making it the default option on the default browser installed on millions of new PC's each year, and is has single-digit market share.

Facebook doesn't have those inroads on the PC market to leverage. They'd have to build something so much better than Google that it would make Google look like Yahoo when Google first arrived on the scene. At which point Google could probably stop sandbagging their own search efforts that favor ads space over results and make up any lost ground pretty quickly.

I'm also not confident in Facebook's ability to create high quality new products anymore. The most recent big successes have come from acquisitions. I suppose they might be able to buy DDG, but they'd almost immediately lose all of its users. And unless the still wanted to build their own actual engine, they'd have to rely on the goodwill of MS to continue getting most results via Bing's engine.