skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A significant part of answering that question in a good way depends on how exactly the current policies and infrastructure are responsible for the unprecedented-in-human-history decline in suffering and extreme poverty and increase in population and average quality of life.

To frame the question - in order for things to be as good as they are, is it required to have a system in which winners like Jeff Bezos are inevitable, or in fact necessary for the system to function?

You can plan and abstract theories and rule changes and ethics and morals, but human systems are chaotic and strange.

Fallibility and mistakes and whim make economics at scale a really hard thing to predict.

Another question would be if you think things are relatively good, does switching to better policies run the risk of destabilizing and losing all the relative gains for extended periods before the better system breaks even?
There are details not exposed outside of NDA, but my suspicion is that there is a requirement that MAC rotation happen more slowly, like every 15 minutes, and it is a bluetooth MAC and the actual GPS/cell based 'movement' which together trigger an alert.

If a bike's Find My support randomized its MAC on every broadcast, it may very well not be possible to tell that it is not a new device each time. That might not be allowed per the licensing agreement, and that might be something that Apple has heuristics to detect and alert on.
Unfortunately, you will find that they'll "track" you just the same, but provide worse service due to smaller economies of scale.
Yes and no. It slows the pace of expansion, but it doesn’t not necessarily mean they liquidate. I’ve yet to meet a billionaire who wants their net worth driven by the bond market.
Neanderthals were better able to cope in colder climates than modern humans. The climate may just have pushed the immigration of them many several thousand years back.
Same. What I did start getting, though, was a whole lot more robocalls and spam emails that correlated strongly with my bursts of job application activity. I'm guessing Taleo and some of the other companies that provide these platforms must leak PII like a sieve.
Nope, that requires their magic low power networking chip thing
I only have 3 years of experience but with three job hunts, the last one I just completed recently.

My new grad job hunt, I received minimal responses cold applying online.

My second job hunt was a one and done poach.

The most recent one, I received a substantial percent of follow throughs. I cold applied to 6 well known SV companies and received a response from 5 of them.

I don’t have any other insight I just wanted to provide an additional data point.
Cool that it also have hydraulics to pitch the simulator forward and backward
It's not you - naming things is hard! I definitely had to reread that line in the spec a bunch to get it as well. Cheers!
Or the cellular network goes down, which happens about once a year during a bad winter storm.
"Right wing". Nazis, not just plain conservatives.
Beautifully put. I've experienced this dichotomy so many times in many different contexts. Being literate and being able to explore are extremely empowering gifts.
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In the case of Telegram, no selling takes place; the app is free.

I can get the Android version from Google's store, which is uncontroversially subject to German law because Google has physical offices and a financial presence in Germany. I can also download it from telegram.org, which to my knowledge does not have a physical or financial presence in Germany.

Germany probably has the legal authority to order Google to stop distributing the Telegram app and can use that authority to pressure Telegram. What remains unresolved is the degree to which Germany can act against Telegram directly.
In the Germany of the 1920s inflation increased inequality enormously. People who had some assets had to start selling them off until they had nothing. Only people with large reserves could survive this and actually prosper because they could buy up more assets. Inflation kills the middle class who was on the way up. Germany still has a trauma from the 1920s. And rightfully so.

Also: the wealthy will steer policy towards their benefit when things get tough for them. The bailouts of 2008 clearly showed this.
Good way to overcome HR's arbitrary filters.
As a programmer, electronics looks like fun. (After dealing with all kinds of thick and dense infrastructure stacks, it’s refreshing to see how things work at the lowest level - where the “stack” below is just Nature herself.)
> This is something I learned to love with Snapchat. It's private, personal, and as you say, ad-free.

It's not private if it's viewable by Snapchat. You can have personal on any platform. And Snapchat is one of the most advertisement-laden platforms ever.
Can you explain what you're doing more specifically that takes days? I've never come across setup that takes that long.
And also the author of Delphi and Turbo Pascal.
> Maybe an unpopular opinion, but imho AWS, GCP and Azure are popular with startups because of their generous free credits, not because they are good tools for startups.

That’s a complete misunderstanding of the cloud’s value proposition. The point of the cloud is to have things “just work” so you can spend more time shipping features and innovating. When I see startups not using it and “rolling their own cloud” by being their own sysadmin I question the strategic decision. To me it’s generally a sign that they failed to raise the appropriate amount of capital and are therefore trading velocity and agility for cost savings.

> So I'm not really sure what part of the ecosystem we are missing here? European companies often have the smaller advertising budget and mindshare, but it isn't like they don't exist.

Also because they can’t scale within a mostly unified 300 million market like US companies can, they have to special case and deal with all special snowflake regulations in every small European country they want to serve.

Plus, that’s not even touching on the engineering talent gap.
>I have been running a server for a year or two. Paying for that myself. I get a wage every month from the job, so I can pay for a server. Theoretically I could run lots of services on that server and still only pay the same amount every month. For dedicated people in IT sector wages are often good and they can afford to run a few things out of their own pocket. My guess is many people would do that. Not every website needs to be "financing itself". It is not always about the money. Some people simply want to make a nice thing and are OK with paying for it.

This does not scale. At some point, you need to make money somewhere.

>Besides all of that, ad business is often make-believe by the big players, giving wrong impression of how much an ad actually helps your business and improper conclusion drawing from statistics by marketing departments, instead of data analysts.

>How many marketing departments are capable of running a proper A-B-test?

Again your just digging deeper, further calling out a trillion dollar business for being wrong. Besides that you would likely need thousands of sources to accurately back up such a claim (since there's people paid much more than you, with access to many more resources than you have, have decided this is worth it). You are literally calling out entire departments that likely have a payroll 1000x your salary.
> Anyway, I learnt some BASIC despite my Usborne books from the UK not being TRS-80 specific

You may find this link of nostalgic interest:
https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books

Usborne have made those old books available as free PDFs. They've even done the classic ones for writing your own text adventures.
Facebook used to have an API (that was useable to do interesting things).
> It’s not unreasonable to demand that Amazon ensures every such tracker they sell has speakers and anti abuse features.

I agree, however, this thread is about Apple's AirTag devices, and complaining about Amazon's incredibly vile sales practices seems at least somewhat off topic for it.
I think you’re completely misunderstanding the threat model here.

First the reality: Malicious actors interested in, e.g., tracking other people or other people’s things without their knowledge or consent, have many other options. To defeat them, an Apple product just needs to be somewhat less convenient/useful/cost-effective than some of the many other options.

Second, the perception: Apple needs to convince their customers and potential customers that they care and they’ll do something when there’s an issue.

As released, they pretty much had number one covered, though improvements are always good. So they are mostly working on number two… it’s good when there are actual improvements, but that’s not the main point.
And here's an excerpt where you repeatedly say that modern sleep is unnatural.

> Modern sleep, in its infinite comfort, is an unnatural superstimulus that overwhelms our brains with pleasure and comfort (note: I’m not saying that it’s bad, simply that being in bed today is much more pleasurable than being in “bed” in the past.)

> Think about sleep 10,000 years ago. You sleep in a cave, in a hut, or under the sky, with predators and enemy tribes roaming around. You are on a wooden floor, on an animal’s skin, or on the ground. The temperature will probably drop 5-10°C overnight, meaning that if you were comfortable when you were falling asleep, you are going to be freezing when you wake up. Finally, there’s moon shining right at you and all kinds of sounds coming from the forest around you.

> In contrast, today: you sleep on your super-comfortable machine-crafted foam of the exact right firmness for you. You are completely safe in your home, protected by thick walls and doors. Your room’s temperature stays roughly constant, ensuring that you stay warm and comfy throughout the night. Finally, you are in a light and sound-insulated environment of your house. And if there’s any kind of disturbance you have eye masks and earplugs.

> Does this sound “natural”?
This chart doesn't take into account inflation.

Anyway, someone described twitter as a "honeypot for assholes". If your platform is dominated by trolls or other malicious people, I can't see it having a good valuation no matter how many users you have.
verified account status these days is meaningless. most of the truly interesting, unique thoughts come from accounts that are not. this is of course my own take after having been on the platform since 2010.
I can assure you many lawyers have told me I do have a case.

I went to the NLRB because the law that was being violated was the NLRA, and I was filing charges on behalf of others, not just me.
Tangential, but assuming you're talking about Listing Mirror? I considered working on a similar product a few years ago, but felt the market was too competitive. Interesting you were able to compete with the plethora of similar services.
When you say they are you referring to Twitter specifically or social media/US tech companies in general?

If you mean Twitter specifically I'd be interested in reading your thoughts on the "bull case" for this takeover. I like Twitter and use it to shout into the void from time to time. I wonder if it's just like.. a company and not a growth company? Like what if we just had Twitter with some monetization and then it just paid out dividends to shareholders? Why is that such a bad thing?
> world now has a broadcast-short-messages service

Twitter is a company that has a track record of both user and developer hostility. They shouldn't be this for the world, and they don't need to be either.

I like to say if you're skating where the puck is going to be, you should be skating towards running your own software that speaks ActivityPub.

By you, I don't mean you per se. I mean organizations with budgets who would typically be assigning email accounts and that keep an LDAP directory.

Twitter could even sell a white-labeled version of this and manage it on your behalf on their own servers.

Some of the target organizations may not want to be subject to rules applicable to American corporations. They're free to operate something like this outside those bounds and use an interoperable protocol.
On mobile i.reddit.com is probably a better fit.
I'm not too familiar with the CoreData API, but from a quick googling it seems like this is some sort of an ORM on top of SQLite.

We position EdgeDB as a database server, not a library, partly because you can interact with it from different programming languages. But we design our client library with focus on API composability, check out our edgedb-js library for example: https://www.edgedb.com/docs/clients/01_js/index

As for the Swift, it would be great to have it one day. I have a counter question: how many of you use Swift to write server-side logic?
It might be difficult to measure this.
> and Islamic missionary efforts

Which missionary efforts? If you mean paying Zakat to those whose hearts are inclined toward Islam that's something different.

> a tax on harvests

I mentioned this in my previous post. Livestock and produce have different Zakat calculations than the 2.5% of money held for a year.

If you're referring to Ushr, that's imposed on non-Muslim nations that taxed Muslims, so a tit-for-tat treatment, and it's not part of Islam per-se, but a socio-political decision.

> certainly that intentionally engineered by the central bank

Exactly what we don't want. We don't want a select few people to determine the tax rate for the entire population, affecting mainly people at the lower socioeconomic levels in society.
or public utilities
I work for a moderately large software company. We absolutely refer to everyone as associates if we're referring to everyone who works for the company. (Naturally everyone has specific titles as well, which may not be what they refer to themselves on their business cards/at conferences/Linkedin/etc.)
Do you support columnar storage? i.e. to make analytics queries fast.
There definitely is a correlation between constituent family income and school "quality", sure, but the actual experience is still overall better (will tend to be, anyway—please take any of these generalities as statistical in nature, not absolute) if you can get into those better-due-to-selection-bias schools. A lot of the same things that make kids in poorer schools harder to teach also mean more classroom disruption and worse peer models, which do harm the experience and outcomes for kids in those schools, even if they are from a stable household without money trouble and the effort & expertise that goes into instruction is identical.

That selection bias thing is part of why it's so damn hard to crack the problem of evening out (while, ideally, improving the average of) school performance—but when I'm wearing my parent-hat and not my speculating-about-public-policy-I'd-like-to-see hat, it's hard to conclude other than that paying attention to which schools are "best" is still a good idea, even if the reasons are a bit bullshitty.
Le Corbusier is rightly famous for his architecture, but the person who arguably deserves more mention here is Charlotte Perriand [1]. She designed the LC4 together with Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier's cousin, who was also a great designer. But Le Corbusier took credit for this chair and other furniture that she designed, and she never achieved anywhere near the fame of Le Corbusier during her lifetime. Fortunately, this is changing.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/07/charlot...
I don't quite get it - Adobe has half of world population of users. They have position of monopoly close to Microsoft and yet they seem to go over themselves making elaborate schemes to sponge off more users? Did the company become so monstrociously bloated that it cannot sustain itself without increasing income? :D
I always disliked their policies and attitude towards users, but this...
If you read history books covering the time just before and after the American revolution, there was a lot of discussion of this topic at the time. A lot of the founder fathers, most notably Alexander Hamilton, believed a national debt was a good thing for the country.

The belief is/was that by carrying a substantial debt, you give the bank and financial institutions skin the game and make their success tied to the success of the country.

In the modern era it also gives individuals and other types of institutions a stake in the country's success. When people take about the U.S. national debt, much of the conversation goes to China and how much money we owe them. We owe them a lot, however, the biggest holders of U.S. debt are individual Americans with their 401ks and things like pension funds and university endowments.
When I travel on summer weekends, I regularly hit rest stops with 10+ gas pumps all with a lineup at them. I'll be curious to see how they plan to scale up these chargers to something that can handle real traffic
I was a contractor once and was basically used as a scapegoat after being asked to move some UI bits for the sake of consistency. This was moving the OK and Cancel buttons on every single dialog window so they were in the same consistent place.

The customers shit the bed and the change rolled back and an “unspecified contractor” was blamed for “an unauthorised change”.

I chose not to renew that one.
That's my understanding, yes. Square was first but now Clover is signing up more merchants.
It’s not Areva anymore. It’s been split into (mostly) Orano, Technicatome, and Framatome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva
>JetBlue flight 1748, an Airbus A320, suffered a tailstrike on takeoff from Hayden Airport, Colorado on January 22,
Sounds like this is not dissimilar from the GraphQL-to-SQL compiler in Hasura, which also brings out surprising performance for wildly nested frontend queries.
And they'll get their API keys revoked.

Just because you have an API doesn't mean you're going to allow anyone and everyone to use it how they want.
Well, either you have a job-providing trade-inducing environmental-friendly choice or you have a choice that allows you to virtue signal.

I know which one I‘d choose.
It just shifts competition into new areas that are compliant with the law. If you can't use aws-us-east from france, then AWS is incentivized to build a (compliant) center in france or else lose that slice of the pie to the locals (or to a potential compliant azure center there).

It's always a tradeoff between racing to the bottom and stagnating. Both are bad, both hurt consumers, and this seems like a good balance between them.
> Twitter is simultaneously a public sphere where politicians are prohibited from blocking users

I do not know what public sphere means, but I doubt Twitter stops specific accounts from blocking other accounts. I do not see why that is relevant either.

The president of the United States, of all people, has the capability to put an RSS feed on Whitehouse.gov or the president’s personal website anytime they want.
Nothing wrong with ads if the user opts-in. Most ads online are opt-out (where "opt" usually means installing an ad-blocker). This is terrifyingly invasive.
1) I don't quite understand, what does being single have to do with anything and why do men start out with a sharply reduced salary? Or do you mean relative to the men only workforce?

2) I'll check it out.

3) 1890 to 1950 has also seen big productivity growth and I doubt the wages kept pace.
Strangely enough that's the only way I've ever gotten a job.
We're working on a more comprehensive explanation of why EdgeDB isn't an ORM. Does EdgeDB do "object-relational mapping" under the hood — absolutely. The reason we try to distance ourselves from the category of ORMs is that the term "ORM" comes with a big bag of preconceptions that don't apply here.

EdgeDB has:

- Full schema model with indexing, constraints, defaults, computed properties, stored procedures

- A query language that replaces SQL. If there's something you can do in SQL that isn't possible in EdgeQL, it's a bug.

- The query language is backed by a full type system, grammar, set of functions and operators, etc.

- A set of drivers for different languages that implement our binary protocol.

By any definition, EdgeDB is a database. It's a new abstraction built on a lower-level abstraction: Postgres's query engine. Both abstractions indubitably fit any reasonable definition of "database".

Basically: just because there's a declarative object-oriented schema doesn't mean this "is just an ORM" (unless your definition is quite pedantic).
Your claim was that there are people 'manipulating our social structure' and instead of backing up a bold claim you backed off and just made the claim that people don't save enough money. If you don't want people to push back on what you say, don't say hyperbolic nonsense. This is a common pattern people fall into.

They don't say what they mean, they say come bizarre abstract exaggeration to get a reply or reaction, then completely back off from what they originally said, then get mad that they are asked to explain their original claim.
Well, it seems very much like Telegram wants to continue being on the German Play Store. And yes, Telegram is very much selling things, even if the price, at the moment is 0$. They're also going into the ad business, if you check their business web presence.
This will provide a nice data-point for those who argue nuclear makes more financial sense over wind/solar/battery, but some anti-nuclear cabal is stopping their construction.

Maybe they are right and France will make lots of money selling energy to its neighbors, or they are wrong, and France will be stuck with some of the highest energy prices in the euro region.
an inherently unstable but critical element of an economic system shouldn't be allowed to float on the whims of a few humans, especially with overwhelming corruptive pressure lapping against them incessantly.

a central bank should be trying with all its might to precisely match the amount of money in the system exactly with the amount of productivity being generated. it shouldn't be trying to implement 'fiscal policy', but rather have exactly one singular (albeit complex) focus. any significant deviation should trigger immediate investigation, replacement, and (potentially) sanctions.
Their proof ends up on L1 and they get cheaper the more people use them.
States get green light to begin building electric car-charging network
> EdgeDB is built on top of Postgres

How it is a new database? Or an advanced orm?
The only problem with that is that inflation is a like a fire. When it's very small it can serve you, but once it gets bigger and you lose control of it you're f*ked.
Areva also had a terrible track record in terms of project management. We’ll see if their successors are better.