skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the stats is that it could contain some major hidden factors; one is if the median income increased because people with lower income dropped out of the workforce. Another is increased income inequality. It could also be if wage growth was front-loaded with the pandemic and will peter out while inflation will continue unabated. And obviously median is much better than mean for a pareto distribution. Some of this might be easier to spot by looking at the quintiles over time.

People are being successfully brainwashed into believing high inflation will benefit them, either by increased wages or proxy debt forgiveness. It is utter madness.

I suspect the average person is seeing price increases beyond their pay so inflationary policy will become increasingly unpopular.
Asset prices do matter, but in an inverse way: ordinary people benefit when asset prices go down, especially housing. Of course, the government is doing everything in its power to make sure asset prices stay inflated, which tells you something about whose priorities they take seriously.
This YouTuber did a simpler version years ago, this is a followup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=todarS6XTPc
The big companies buy the little companies as soon as they look like they may be a threat. It’s not monumental or hard to compete with them.
really curious about if all the people that do leet code can transfer those skills to their job. Problem solving is a good metric i suppose, but how good?
Off topic, but I love that they make it trivial to find a link to the original paper. I know not everyone loves quanta, but stuff like this is really refreshing.
No, the electric cannon ball run is where the real interesting progress is being made these days.
Working on a consumer SaaS startup and I strongly disagree. A virtual machine on something like DigitalOcean does not provide any of the nice abstractions that something like a Google Cloud Run (or similar on AWS/Azure) provides. The amount of time a cloud provider can save you administratively is difficult to exaggerate. That is from day 1. Should your startup succeed, and you need to scale, the real savings start to kick in since scaling to a large degree is handled for you. Good luck re-architecting your app into a kubernetes cluster and handling load balancing manually while your competition gets all that with almost no effort.
The factory part aside, white glove delivery is not unheard of in premium offerings of various items. It makes perfect sense to have white glove treatment for the delivery of Peloton devices, and you can almost always guarantee the customer interaction is better when your employees are in-house instead of contracted.
Its also possible that this enables you to deploy all your assets prebuilt and optimized to a CDN?

For Node apps running on services like fly.io this may be useful, since they're regionally distributed and their claim of running closest to the customers using it is at least partially true. This makes your deployed images (and therefore disk size needed) much smaller

I agree that not having SRI as a requirement is a miss, however I see legitimate use cases here.
The HN crowd is always quick to point out that Peloton has no moat - its just a screen on a bike. Creating a lifestyle brand (ala in person fitness brands like Soulcycle or Barrys) is a way to address that moat, and apparel is a core part of that.

Whether or not they were successful is an execution issue.
I am very open to critiquing Bill Gates (and other personally wealthy folks disregarding experts in a messianical manner), but isn't this kind of what he spends all of his time on now (malaria, ebola, etc.)? From the article itself, he links to a TED talk he gave about epidemics in 2015, as well as a paper he had published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
>asset prices don't matter to ordinary people.

Can you provide some data on this assertion? I would be surprised to learn that the majority of ordinary people (assuming you mean something like 'net worth < $1MM USD') do not care about housing costs and car costs, which are both assets.
Associate is just another word for employee. I don’t see why Apple should be contributing data to these shady databases of prior salaries and levels.

If a new employer wants to know my level at a previous employer, I’ll tell them. If they want proof then 1) that’s pretty weird but 2) they can give my manager a call.

But if I don’t tell them my level, then I don’t want anyone else to tell them either.
> Would you mind by starting Chapter 1, by stating what makes you uniquely qualified to talk about vaccines and pandemic policies?

He wants the Nobel prize. He wants it SO badly that he met fcking Epstein to discuss the matter.
> The cost is individual liberty.

What about the average German's liberty of not having his country publicly badmouthed due to the actions of a few crazy nutcases? It's hard to seriously argue that this wouldn't happen, given Germany's post-WWII history. (Also I'm not sure why you're bringing up the 'last two years', the prohibition has been in place for far longer than that.)
Is student debt with variable interest rates or just a fixed rate?

Because variable interest rates can get quite high due to inflation.
Evidence for your position: people pay for newspapers and magazines, and pay more for newspapers and magazines without advertising; indeed, the newspapers and magazines with less or no advertising charge less.

Also evidence for your position: the Computer Shopper (US, not UK) eventually bulked up to 1000 pages per month, almost all of which were advertisements by computer companies -- PC builders, parts suppliers, manufacturers, and so forth. But what it did was act as a catalog for all those companies, because you couldn't find them on the web back then. You can track the page count decline against the advent of ubiquitous Internet.
Check out sub-prime car loans. Carvana and the like will finance anything with a pulse, so people with poor credit buy used instead of new.
This holds up in my recent search. I just apply to these anyway, because what they define as senior might be totally different between companies.
Wish it were between 2025 and 2027
What are you giving Cloudflare here? You're running a tunnel daemon and piping a network process to it. There's no exchange of for example your private SSH keys.

If anything this is letting people more easily self host their own version of 'BigCorp cartel' apps like mail, code hosting, etc.
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If the company is not fully remote, probably yes. You will be mostly outside of the political games, so no upside from them but also not fighting any of those battles is a huge upside IMO.
Yeah. Along the same lines, anyone who has ever attempted to start a business knows that advertising in various ways is essential.

If you banned all advertising, you'd be doing a huge favor to the largest, most established companies--the ones that already have high brand awareness.

As much as ads suck, they also provide a relatively democratic form of access to markets for new entrants. Without them, the only hope is going viral organically, which is more or less equivalent to winning the lottery.
Weird, I'm a huge car nerd, and I stayed inside during the times when I was supposed to and attended HPDE and other track events when it became possible again. Like many other folks, I used the extra time at home to order parts online and upgrade my car in my garage during my free time. I don't know anyone that used this opportunity to go out on the public roads and do anything dangerous, and I find that suspect, but it could be regional differences (or socioeconomic differences) between different groups of car people.
Workers threads spawn a new JS VM( which implies a new GC) for each worker! We tried it and the gains from parallelism stopped when there were half as many workers as CPUs.
What’s /g/?
> Not only can we read about this lab leak hypothesis across all media outlets, there is an ongoing debate about its validity in most respectable ones.

This was not the case throughout 2020, into 2021. Discussing the lab leak publicly was a great way to get banned from Twitter or branded a misinformation-spreading fringe alt-righter, a-la-Rogan. This was despite the fact that there was no less evidence supporting its probability.
IIRC the RPi4 can do PXE with no SD card (it'll try to TFTP boot files). The hardcoded bootloader in 1-3 either don't have PXE or have broken PXE code (I cannot recall exactly what the case is).
this is true in general but

1) vivado webpack edition (ie free) lets you write (and flash) a bitstream for some of the small chips. i know it at least works for the artix-7 family because i'm doing it every day lately

2) for the artix-7 (and some lattice chips) you supposedly can use OSS (https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjxray). i haven't tried it yet but one problem i can foresee is that the OSS tools won't infer stuff like brams and dsp. in fact the symbiflow people (i think?) explicitly call this out as the part of the project that's a work in progress.

some useful links:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10407

https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr

https://www.rapidwright.io/
Money gives you access to experts and lets you hire them. Bill Gates takes liberal advantage of this.

That he invested heavily into both Moderna and BioNTech before the pandemic gives him lots of credibility.
Interesting ironic comment. Googling for a solution is implicitly asking Google to serve you ads regarding that solution.
Loan it to someone else at 0% interest.
Agreed.

We've also seen that interest rate cuts amd QE are very weak at stimulating inflation, and very strong at stimulating asset values.

I'm coming around to the view that UBI should be used to fight deflation, and interest rates to fight inflation.
I think the idea is to have the office space near the physical studio. It's not completely irrational.
That's very different from the relevant Telegram groups. Those function more like a blog on the web — non-subscribers can search for them, only the group's owner(s) can post, and everyone else can just read. And they work for very large audiences, 100k readers is no problem.
There are some interesting datacenter interconnect implications, especially around the new CXL spec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_Express_Link
Oh? I missed this. What regulation is that?
I think you seriously misunderstand the relationship between the government and the BBC.

The whole thing is setup to create a clear firewall between the BBC and government to preserve the BBC’s impartiality and prevent it becoming a mouthpiece for whoever’s in power (it’s a separate debate as to how successful that is).

Ministers are not the CEO of the BBC. Not even close. The BBC has an entirely separate board that should have no relationship to the current government in power (something that BoJo is desperately trying to erode).

The whole point of all this is to explicitly make sure the BBC isn't a government controlled corporation, regardless of how much the government wishes it was.

> It's also worth noting the UK govt' spent $5.1bn on the BBC last year, in contrast Sky operated on $5.2bn in revenue. There are clearly some huge inefficiencies at the BBC that can be remedied internally without government approval. Bemoaning $5.1bn as not being enough is garbage. I mean, ITV operates on $2.1bn in revenue. Cutting back the waste seems appropriate to me.

You clearly have no idea how huge the BBC’s legally mandated remit is. Comparing the BBC to Sky is like comparing TfL to Uber. Sure they’re both transport companies, but TfL is legally mandated to provide a good transport service to all, regardless of background or income, and treat their employees well. Uber can fuck their drivers, and refuse to provide services to the unprofitable.
,, I also tell you about my regular conversations with public health leaders like Anthony Fauci and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus''

I hope he addresses the fact that Anthony Fauci didn't tell Trump that he authorized the gain of function research in Wuhan. Also he could ask Tedros privately whether Taiwan is a country or not, we still don't know it.
> I expect a lot of chaos

I am extraordinarily skeptical of essentially the whole comment except this. Economies are very complicated systems composed of many non-rational actors. All economics is voodoo IMHO. It's akin to try to predict the fluctuations in current on a motherboard's bus without having any conception of what program is running. Total guesswork on top of a system more complicated than human understanding.

We want to understand economies in terms of pipes and pressure and the complexity-equivalent of simple machines, when in reality the future is going to be dominated by black swans: crazy things like cryptocurrencies, cyberattacks, once-in-a-millenium climate/weather events, political revolutions, and fads.

Chaos, indeed!
So, I create a web page that describes a product ("Quesarito"). You, the consumer, find out about the product by stumbling upon the page by luck; if you decide to try the product and don't like it does that mean you were fooled?

Can you only be fooled when you are alerted to the presence of a product without your consent?
I personally would like to think I wouldn't compromise my principles for $10.8k/yr, but would prefer not to have to find out.
Jeffrey Epstein really enjoyed the fact that wealth implies general intelligence and insight to a lot of people. Also the fact that if a rich guy wears a Harvard sweatshirt, a lot of people will insist he must have gone to Harvard without ever being asked to.
Hmm, but you could have not given the data or used the website in the first place.
I'm talking about advertising in general, you specifically focused on online advertising - which I agree that it's so blatant and obnoxious.

> In other words, there's indeed a tolerance point for most people for advertising, the online ad market however definitely crossed the line for a lot of people.
In my so far short career this has been my experience as well. Though communication is something that we really don't think about very often.
Thank you so much. I knew I was missing something.
Why are you importing New World thinking to the Old World?
> It’d help if the rest of the world tried to aggressively prevent brain drain

What does that mean? Are you suggesting that countries should control where their citizens choose to work/live?
laugh

1. software is a VERY new discipline. its also one of the most malleable. I doubt we'll ever stop seeing churn in this space.

2. we don't reinvent the how we build houses each year. you can safely ignore all this new fangled web things if you want.

3. churn is also domain specific. we've more or less stopped inventing drastically new APIs at the OS/system level.

4. software for UIs have never been great. we are still learning how to build them. most of the major players in UI software still exist, windows, java, macosx (cocoa?), QT, GTK, Enlightment, and HTML/CSS/javascript.

finally software will continue to evolve as base layers add the ability for higher layers to do things differently. for example as CPU get more and more vector operations that can dramatically change how we write code.

this churn is a positive not a negative on the industry.
Do you have data that supports this?
> Because people lie, constantly.

The new company interviewed me. They can decide if I'm qualified or not.
You framed the question. Don't push the goal posts around by pointing to past autocracies. It might be a very small risk, but it is infinitely bigger than the risk from my own govenment - where the risk is zero.
yeah, beautiful! have capital! never not have capital!
Many startups get a lot of family and friends funding. On top of this - a lot of startups are having someone do unpaid work before they get funded. This usually means someone had support to pay rent, food, insurance, etc.

Varies a lot but all the people I know who are relatively young and doing startups come from pretty wealthy families.
> That changes when the "wholly USA" website is being used by German citizens, who are under jurisdiction.

Then Germans will have to prosecute those going to the website and using it or remove it from German DNS servers. Germany has no right to try and limit the rights of US citizens by extension of limiting those of Germans.

> I's not about "disparaging things about the <country>", it's about running a website or service and not reacting to the fact that actual nazis are using the service. (You know with the eugenics and everything!)

As much as I hate the Nazis, Nazi sentiment is not illegal in the USA as long as they stay within the law. The German government has no right to push their ideology and laws here. Again block Germans from the site or sue to have Parler block German user IP addresses (good luck with that, it won't last 5 minutes before the judge laughs and says "next case")
"Your own argument is predicated on this spectrum being divisible into two populations. My point is that, wherever you make that divide, one group is helping more than the other."

My argument is that the person who made the division into two groups did so using the wrong line, and even then blamed one group for the damage while absolving the other. This two group divide was poorly defined and should not have been made in the first place.

"With words like 'wholly' and 'false', you are making straw man arguments."

Not at all. 'False' is a perfectly acceptable way to identify a factually incorrect statement. If the person making the argument supports their argument with facts as well as non-subjectively, unambiguously defined definition of the groups, then one could address the individual points. As it stands, they made a blanket statement which is not supported by facts but rather by opinion. Perhaps they could rephrase it to be accurate or add facts to support their claim.

"It is factually accurate and completely reasonable to say that some people are net contributors to public health, while others have the opposite effect."

But it is not factually accurate based on the division made by the original person. Nor was that the claim (net contributors to public health). Nor have I seen facts to support the claim that one group is a net positive and the other is a net negative. If both groups are capable of catching and spreading the virus, then there is no net positive in that context - merely one group is less of a net negative - to what degree would again require better definition of the groups.
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thanks

right, so the net present value of, say, a rental unit (or any ongoing productive investment) is the sum of an infinite number of payments which, if my math is correct here, is infinity (regardless of the recurring payment amount)

of course there is a risk discount as well, which, as I mentioned on a sibling comment, has been removed in many cases by the fed backstopping a lot of investments

there's a reason we don't see actual infinite prices, after all

my general point is that as interest rates get very low, npv gets really whippy and I expect that to be what we see going forward

just a guess and I'm not an economist, although experience suggests that's a point in my favor
We had almost 8 inches of heavy snow. But Still my math must have been off (did in my head). Doing again I get

10 lb/ft * 450ft * 45ft / 2000 = ~100 tons
For those interested I also highly recommend Veritasium's video[1] as an excellent explainer as well, especially regarding the roots of imaginary/complex numbers in geometry.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzklzVXJwo
Never mind that when you reach a certain level of wealth, capital is your main source of more wealth. So capital becoming cheaper just goes straight to your bottom line.
You are absolutely fragmenting the internet.

We had PII on Azure. We wanted to do business in France. We had to fork our services, and run a full stack on a crappy provider in France. They charged a lot more, would take weeks of vacation with zero support for us. It was a freaking nightmare.

EDIT: I love the responses I'm getting. People are in absolute denial that this does in fact fragment the internet. You may believe that's a good thing, and that's a rational discussion we can have. But don't lie to yourself, or to me, that this doesn't fragment the internet.
> The company my wife works for will only confirm whether an employee was employed at a given date, or not. No salary information. No titles. Nothing other than a yes, or no.

This is pretty common. My state is pretty liberal in terms of what's allowed legally, but even as far back as the 90s, the official party line in most shops was that you couldn't say more than "Joe was employeed here between 19xx and 19xx". And that's assuming you, as a persons former manager, were even supposed to take the call. Many shops had a "refer all inquiries to HR" rule and would only tell them the same basic answer.

Unofficially, a common tactic was (and I believe still is, if recent experience is anything to go by) to to exploit the use of "personal references" as opposed to former Employers. Hope (or 'suggest') the candidate used a former co-worker as a personal reference, and then on the call ask things like "On a personal level, given the opportunity, would you look forward to working with Joe again?" Anything less than an enthusiastic "oh definitely" was a polite tip off that Joe was not someone you wanted in your shop.
I was talking about new products/movies/whatever, not users. Sorry, "new entity" was too vague in retrospect.

My point was around the utility of marketing, at least in theory. If I release a new brand of baked beans, how would a recommender based on past sales (and combinations of sales) know to recommend it to anyone. Marketing allows it to go up the list (unfairly, according to the post I was replying to).
It is a lot like that and I want to find a better resolution for it.

I don't want ideas to stop, I've had times where I've looked at a game system that I've built and had no idea what to do next. That's also horrible.

Having a new idea shouldn't just have me building some new thing from scratch either.

Working out how to navigate that tightrope when you are the client and it's not just solve this problem is one I'm still trying to work out :)...
>Sometimes they race in cars that are deliberately made to look like foreign police cars: technically legal but the intention is clear

In California, there was a spate of people who decorated their cars to look like PLA military police. At least one of them got arrested for "impersonating an officer" and "misusing a public seal". It was somewhat novel because those laws hadn't been used to "protect" the symbols of foreign institutions before.
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It is equivalent, as are the pre-XML MS Office file formats which were essentially dumps of the document in memory.
Sorry, I should have been clearer: I meant that it's had the most manpower dedicated to optimising it, not that it's necessarily the most optimal. It's hard to make apples-to-apples comparisons in that respect, given the significant differences between different language specifications. (For instance, it's hard for anyone to write a reference-compliant interpreter for Python which is as fast as the interpreter they could write for, say, Ada or Haskell.)
Using "associate" or something along those lines is extremely common. It does seem a bit more pleasant and it also steers clear of employee vs. contractor legal distinctions.
I think it's a 4chan board