skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US GDP in 2020 was 20.94T. According to Statista[0] "Finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing" accounted for 4.59T. Manufacturing accounted for 2.27T. While "Finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing" accounted for ~20% of GDP, I think its still a stretch to say that "in the US, industry is almost a support function for finance - just something to generate numbers to bet on, like horse racing."

"China's government has kept finance in its box, focusing investment on actually making real stuff."

What's happening with Evergrande is the opposite of keeping finance in its box. Evergrande borrowed money from banks and took money from consumers before building a condo. They then took the money and "invested" in things like football players and stadiums.[1] Consumers are left without homes. [2]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/248006/real-value-added-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergrande_Group#Sports

[2] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210914-evergrande-dr...
Males would struggle to make proper use of a pessary.
New Financial AI Assistant for Microsoft Teams
we are behind in a lot of areas, i am starting to wonder if it's because of our barrier to entry (college fees). i've also been told that we don't teach math in the most intuitive way in k-12. a lot of professors say they have to reteach math to students. many colleges and universities have dropped asking for testing scores from high school realizing they will have to reteach them anyways, kind of interesting to see but kinda sad that we have let our education system
slip this far
If you're not even using the screen, why bother? There are a zillion tiny computers out there.
Seriously?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/30/microsoft...

He "left" the board, which is the equivalent of "You can't fire me, I quit". He was removed.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/17/bill-gates-m...
It would be unfair if the article was demonizing, say, Jack Dorsey for not paying enough in taxes, unless Jack has gone out of his way to lobby to get his tax burden lowered. Otherwise, he is merely living within the rules of the system, and the article should be attacking the politicians who are responsible for our tax laws.
Taking what Iridium did and scaling it up 500x does not make it novel.

Iridium did all of the things Starlink does - it just did them with 2G bandwidths, instead of 5G bandwidths.

Furthermore the opex of keeping a constellation that large in orbit, has not been proven to be cheaper than operating a ground based wireless network. Starlink operates with an assumption, that has not yet been proven to be true - that the cost per kg to launch something into LEO will go down as time goes on. If this prediction does not prove to be true, then it has no hope of making money, much less being self-sustaining.

Beyond this, the shorter lifetime of their sat fleet compared to a geosynchronous sat, means they must be replaced sooner, but its not obvious that the sats are significantly cheaper.

The appearance of novelness is what allowed SpaceX to get the spectrum to operate what is effectively another cellular network - well a hybrid between fixed wireless and cellular.
> Sure we do. Look no further than this article. We can make it, but its not commercially viable.

Q total is way below 1 (translation: it took far more energy to make the energy that was produced, than was produced). We do not have working fusion power, if "working fusion power" means "you get more out than you put in".

As for the rest of this, I have no idea who you think you're replying to. Just one follow up, neverthless:

> And yet, I guarantee you, we cannot go full solar now.

The USA spent more than US$300M per day on the war in Afghanistan, for 20 years. I guarantee you that if "we wanted to go full solar" now, we could. US$2T buys you a lot of anything, including even today's vaguely clunky battery tech.
Uh… I accidentally wrote you a novel :)

Shoot me an email at my pseudonymous address with your preferred means of contact, and I’d be happy to chat. I try to keep this HN account not easily connected to my “root identity”, but I don’t mind connecting directly with individuals.

Email: nominallyanonymous@protonmail.com
This isn't mysterious. The people sucking money out of the wage pool are the 1% class, not women.

20 trillion in debt for illegal and stupid wars probably didn't help either, though it does tie in once again with the 1% class.
My induction range gets plenty hot. It boils water faster than any gas range I've ever used, and I have zero issues with temperature.
Are you sure there's not a gene for fabric preferences?
In a private startup the cash value of the options doesn't tell you anything.

Typically the company tries to keep the strike price of common options as low as possible, to the degree the 409a consultant will let them.
Of course its going to fail in consumer electronics.

For a majority of content, an 'unbreakable' DRM layer drastically decreases its value.

In our pandemic world i can simply say : The R value plummets.

Or in simple terms. Bob doesn't care if a show is mediocre, but he does care about what the other kids are watching.

But this shits going to dominate in the H(ardware)aaS b2b world.
As with any challenged population, blaming the victim is unfair in the majority of cases, is unproductive in finding solutions, and it creates division where it is unwarranted. But the phrase "positive masculinity" is fraught.

Ease in befriending and reaching real camaraderie with women does not depend on masculinity at all. It depends on seeing others as equals. I sure don't think about masculinity and whether I'm doing it right. What would that do?

I doubt the kind of masculinity advice Jordan Peterson is slinging helps any of the men who listen to him. Instead, they find comfort and self-justification in that advice. It isn't changing their outcomes. It isn't the on-ramp to good relationships. It is the on ramp to the "intellectual dark web" and that will keep your dick dry more reliably than anything.
You are going to have to modify the monolith to open up access to the state via an API.

If there is a new feature X to develop and want to put it it a microservice what you do is carve out a small part of the system that would include X into a microservice, replicate the function of that subsystem and add feature X. If you always think of refactoring as the short path to implementing a feature (at some point it is) there is not a conflict between refactoring and putting features in.

The idea that every change has to come from a user story is a toxic idea in project management that will kill your project. The fact is the system has needs of it's own that have to be addressed if the system is going to take care of the users. For instance nobody begrudges that the server has to be plugged into the wall or that an employee has to go to the hospital if they have a heart attack.

You get pushback sometimes when you have a complaint that "the build takes 40 minutes", they will ask, "how does fixing that benefit the user?" and you reply "if we made the build 10 minutes the user would have had the product six months ago and would get features four times as fast".

Somebody has to hunker down and be an advocate for the system.
I'm going to disagree here. I'm a woman and I had the same results as every man replying here: I recognized all the science, game, and action terms and almost none of the fashion and textile ones. Never once when I have gone clothes or makeup shopping (always exclusively in person) have I encountered any of those terms, written or otherwise. I feel I might have been more familiar if I actually shopped online where these words might be displayed.
Nice work! Anything that helps visualise state I'm happy to see.

Reading the linked article I'm unclear: does Stately generate output that we run with XState? Or is it a SaaS where we design and run the state machine (a bit like Camunda provides for running BPMN diagrams)?

If not already present, a visual runner would be awesome - like https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js-token-simulation allows, to explore the state.

Edit: looking at the Visualizer I think you've already got a visual runner - I click my way through and see/choose the options at each stage. Cool!
I can't tell if this is satire but if it isn't it's spreading a bunch of misinformation and non proven claims. This entire point seems to just be calling for censorship if it isn't satire.
Is this really the state of sex ed?
Anti science and anti intellectualism are getting confused with being woke and anti establishment.

Not surprised at all at this result.
Here's the link to our youtube channel if folks wanna see what slytherone is referring to: https://www.youtube.com/c/interviewingio
Frustrating as it may be, depending on the meaning behind "originally built as an intro to SWE project" I get why it really just works on Chrome. If they just pushed it up after that project so people could see, whatever. If they really want people to use it, a bit frustrating.
Maybe. I get your point. I saw the clip of her on Bill Marr's show that has been floating around. She has pushed back when it was safe to do so. The tide was already turning on that.
GIF to ASCII Web Animation
> men who'll grow up to be stable and reliable have lonely teenage years.

You are describing nerds having high paying tech jobs, right?

I find that little bit short sighted, there are huge number(probably the majority) of people with balanced lifestyles who are employed in stable jobs, just not really in a trendy high paying or high status sectors.

There are also a sizeable number of people who don't posses the nerdy characteristics at all and still are good in academics and business. Colleges are actually full of that kind of people, they all end up in good jobs.
I feel like anyone who did secondary school physics would have come across piezoelectricity though? I certainly did.
The biggest weebs I knew in college were women. Sailor Moon is woefully underestimated in terms of how much it contributed to redressing the nerd gender balance. I won't say that it's completely redressed, but female anime fans and japanophiles are considerably more prevalent now than in decades past.

Now, the bits of culture that concern swords and warrior codes of honor? Yeah, those are boy things, mainly.
Many can even get away with less: sqlite.

One less process to worry about.
Melinda Gates is trying to get the best possible settlement from her divorce. The Epstein issue is obvious leverage. Melinda loses nothing by Bill being embarassed in public, and she gains a lot at the negotiating table.
What about all of those who got rejected? Do you think they actually gained any value from it?
The UK used to be 240V and many countries in Europe were 220V. The compromise was for everybody to use 230V

But what I've heard is that the voltages staid the same, but 240V is still within spec of 230V with tolerances.
I don't think "competitive" and "being curious to dive into details" are the same thing.

You can definitely do fine without being competitive. I don't think competitivity is a plus, really.

Can you do fine without being curious about technology, just doing enough to get by?

Honestly, in the current market for software engineers -- I don't see why not. You might not get to the "top levels". You'll still make more than 90%+ of non-software engineers. There are people who arne't even competent who are getting rich, so.
US Government now holds $4B in Bitcoin, double Tesla’s stack
It did also have the (real life) villains at the beginning which creates the tragedy that kicks off the events.

But yes no villain for a child to anchor too.
I knew people who started oilfield welding businesses at the age of 18 right out of high school, bought houses and started families. Yeah that is a boom-and-bust business but then again so is machine learning.
I'm senior at a large bay area tech co. I used this service a few years ago and actually got great feedback and tips (11 offers during that search, almost 100% offer rate for onsite). I'm also on the recorded interviews list

One of my interviewer (from ms) actually had too high a bar and was good to see an upper bound for coding interviews

Highly recommend this service
14°F, a worst-case scenario? WTF?

I had to keep shelter in a telephone booth just to survive waiting for a train at -14,8F (-26°C) in Weimar, Germany -- called a taxi.
That's a worst-case, not the "every decent winter in Europe" 14°F
I'm excited about this. So needed to have an open source solution for this problem! Love it!
Yeah that is pretty upsetting to see, they are potentially doing permanent damage to their eyesight. Presumably someone is paying for all of this but isn't paying for eye protection?
Sounds like the rappers from Snow Crash.

For the closest real-world analogue, check out m-flo.
KPMG adds Bitcoin to its corporate treasury
https://michaelkofron.github.io/image2ascii/MakingWebAnimati...
That depends. Indoor levels would vary based on a variety of factors. If you're using a vent hood, it shouldn't be much of an issue.

"been shown to do absolutely nothing"

That's entirely false. There is still debate about the overall effects of EMF. Plus, there are known effects like high power VHF and excess heat build up in the eyes.
Do you want to tell us what you find interesting? There are companies that do the same or very similar things to game developers, but for/in other industries.

For example, the product I'm working on a product for real time architectural visualization, but at it's core it's very much like a true game engine with pretty much the same techniques for graphics, input, physics, sound... Since we're selling to customers in AEC and related industries, we're on a steady development schedule and the pay is good.
Yeah!

But we need to go nuclear [fission] in the mean time... I can't imagine any other way that wouldn't devastate the environment excessively at the same time (e.g. river dams are bad IMHO).
That's true, you can get unlucky with interviewers.
It seems highly improbable we won't have society in 2050. We're currently in 2022, we've existed alongside nuclear weaponry for 75 years, I doubt the next 28 will see annihilation but I do dread the small chance (maybe 5-10%)?

So other than nuclear apocalypse, I fail to see what could remove society by 2050? Climate Change's worst effects will not be seen by 2050, they'll be very bad but they won't destroy society in all places, just hamper its economy and lower societal living standards.
Yeah, the idea that employability necessitates a decline in romantic prospects is so comically backwards that it's hard to even take seriously.
The willingness to throw away work that, no matter how well done, is in service of a less enjoyable movie, is why some movies are great while others are, well, just movies. Producing 90 minutes of animation is a heck of a lot cheaper than producing 90 minutes of animation that hundreds of millions of people will cherish for generations.
You're dismissing millennium due to a generation of reasonable parity in education, and entirely dismissing culture passed between generations of women. My grandmother wouldn't really know any of those fabric words, she grew up on a plantation in the 30s. Probably means she's not a woman.
Different Opex and technical requirements -

The opex of keeping a constellation that large in orbit, has not been proven to be cheaper than operating a ground based wireless network (and Starlinks opex is certainly more than a convention geosynchronous satellite system). Starlink operates with an assumption, that has not yet been proven to be true - that the cost per kg to launch something into LEO will go down as time goes on. If this prediction does not prove to be true, then it has no hope of making money, much less being self-sustaining.

Beyond this, the shorter lifetime of their sat fleet compared to a geosynchronous sat, means they must be replaced sooner, but its not obvious that the sats are significantly cheaper - this on top of the inherent launch costs, and the much much much larger fleet, implies that there may be a disconnect in pricing.
I don't really understand your comment, sorry! However, in my case, I think taking care of my family would be my "real job" since it actually takes a lot of effort! My wife does a lot around here, and I consider her work as integral to our family's well-being as my work; maybe even moreso.
This isn't about people having the option just happening to have an option to pick whatever name they want - this is in the context of a massive backlash against the specific use of a specific word, then people being given the option to make that choice under scrutiny or at least with extreme care and taking into account the risk of backlash should they "choose wrong."
Okay. Hold your grudge from the 90s. No one can stop you. It's pretty weird not to care about his enormous efforts in philanthropy, though.
"PUFrt builds upon eMemory’s anti-fuse OTP (NeoFuse) and Quantum Tunneling PUF (NeoPUF) technologies to provide self-encrypted anti-Fuse OTPwith on-chip PUF. The inborn HUK utilizes the NeoPUF’s guaranteed randomness..."

With enough new buzzwords, all things are possible.

The idea here seem to be a security token that generates its own random key and never lets it out of the device. Reasonable enough. The claim is that this is resistant to physical attack to obtain the secret key. Yet that's an unlikely attack vector. If you have physical possession of the token long enough to extract its unique private key by elaborate means, why do you need to clone it?

The usual problems with such devices involve replay attacks, or remote access attacks. (A remote access attack is when a token is used to open one door, and the door has been compromised to pass through the challenge/response from another more important door elsewhere, allowing an attacker to open the more important door.)

This isn't relevant to DRM. DRM for broadcast media requires that there be many protected copies of the same decrypt key. This thing is for unique keys only.

It seems strange that such a device would have a JTAG port, even if it is "disabled after the manufacturing process".
While I share your first hand observations here, I'll note that (from my limited perspective) there was nothing obviously catering to non-females or any particular gender in these groups. Many of the groups I've attended also had 'professional standards'.

So what is the discrepancy? What has changed and what is being done differently between the groups where 'boys' can optionally attend and ones that 'girls' appear to self select against attendance? We should reach for a world that doesn't require discrimination.
Girls and women are marginalised in the area of technology. This site in particular has hosted terabytes of discussion of this problem. If you look back at some of the stories about conferences and why codes of conduct have been set up, you will see at least part of the publicly visible part of this.

This is why it’s perfectly socially acceptable to set up a specific group to give women and girls a chance to learn skills in an environment where they feel safe from sneering, lewd comments, and other such behaviour which is not conducive to learning, or simply having a good time.

The article under discussion here is important, because boys and men face a great many difficulties in life, but the Venn diagram of difficulties faced by men and women has problems unique to each and problems shared by both.

Complaining about people getting help in areas where they face a disproportionate struggle just seems unkind.
I would also worry a bit about accumulation of drugs like lithium and other contaminants like PFCs. My suspicion is long term closed loop use of toilet compost for food crops could result in unsafe levels of contamination, have you done any research that direction?
The “day long pajama wearing laptop class”
But then you wouldn't post your product in the "vision impaired community forums" for example. I'd be curious to see the actual stats, but HN surely has a high percentage of Firefox users compared with the general tech-naive population.
I'm a moderator here. Sorry that wasn't clear.
I once had a GMC (that was in most other ways terrible), that embedded the backup camera screen behind the rear view mirror glass. There was a direct connection between it and the backup camera. The backup camera was triggered by the backup lights, so no head console integration was required.

That was nice. Hopefully, some manufacturer will cater to the touchscreen backlash crowd,and it'll become popular.
Maybe I missed something, but the way I read it is that the danger is from the drivers and other protestors, not the trucks themselves. Disabling the engines would make it more difficult to move the trucks, not less.
UtilityAPI and other products are built by energy companies, not tech companies. We've talked to developers who've used these platforms and they consistently mention an extremely poor developer experience; lack of clear documentation, difficulty in building integrations quickly, little to no support, etc. One example: we talked to a paying customer of UtilityAPI who asked for a specific feature, and UtilityAPI asked him to pay for the development costs of it.

We are software engineers by trade and know how to build a really good developer experience. We're focusing on ease-of-use from the start and will build a stellar engineering team that in turn will help us develop a higher quality product.
YES! EXACTLY!
Cool.

I was just thinking there ought to be an AI chat agent that can recommend music based on themes and mood, perhaps with a periodic, paradoxically-opposite sense of humor.
I have my doubts that most people can give a correct definition for those scientific words. So even if one person is familiar with the general area, it doesn't say much about their education. Perhaps about their preferences in media.
You know one thing I find interesting is you specifically call out "unskilled job", which I think has a point but the OP mentions specifically his son studying to be a carpenter that I would consider a "high skilled" job, even if it is blue collar, and then you suggest there was a small period of time when an 18 yo could provide for a family with unskilled labor.

I then realized that for much of history up until recently by the time a young man was 18 years old he was already a skilled craftsman at his craft to a large extant. The young man would've been training with his father at his craft from the time he was ten years old and so by the time he was 18 would be proficient in what he had to do.

I wonder then is part of the issue we face due to the fact that we spend so much time trying to instill a modern education into youth until they are adults that they have to spend an additional 4-8 years acquiring an actual skill in order to be able to provide value in the workforce?
> If you need to do something more complicated, growth will tell you.

+1. Needing to refactor & scale your infrastructure to enable more growth is almost always a "good problem to have".

You've steadily grown to $100mm revenue and your backend is starting to show it because you prioritized productivity over premature optimizations? Oh no, the world is ending! (said no one ever)
Maybe it’s only after log-in. They sell coaching packages. Weirdly, the FAQ is a Google Doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d7mJDPkEykKzSYjj-Wmza-UX...
I'm constantly surprised by comments on a tech-savvy site such as HN by people who'd rather live in a slide rule world. I enjoy infotainment systems because I can listen to Spotify and podcasts and easily call/text people safely while driving on long haul drives, which I often find myself on. I have zero complaints about my system other than not having the level of customizability a nerd such was myself desires.