skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's an idea about financialisation, which is just completely wrong: he notes companies are willing to pay $20 billion for a $10 billion company, after selling it off for its pieces, and noting no value has been added.

This is just one face of financialization.It's known as asset stripping and it has a long wikipedia page so my sophomoric take is that it's probably real, but I'd be interested to see your rebuttal to it nonetheless.

>Typically the reverse happens, companies get merged for economies of scale

They typically get merged to bolster market power and they say that it's for economies of scale because it sounds like it's in the consumers interest rather than diametrically opposed to it and that's how to get mergers approved.

Anybody who has worked in a large multinational corporation of stitched together mergers could tell you just how kafkaesque the diseconomies of scale can be.

>Then there's a whole piece on globalisation... again, not sure where to start

Maybe don't.
I imagine it would be hard to study gender-specific crafts in the ancient world without also touching on gender relations. Why is it that so many people seem to think "crafts" are irrelevant or unworthy of academic study? Are we still that bound to silly notions about what should carry 'prestige'? This isn't even about gender since there are male-associated crafts too.
> To point an example, the FDA approved oxycodone for oral administration (and trusted patients with the dosage of a strong opioid). Meanwhile in most European countries it's rarely prescribed, and often only given IV/IM form (i.e. in the hospital).

So you take the exception to make a case? Around the world most regulatory bodies look at what the FDA has approved and take it from there to elaborate their own opinions. Oxycodone was an exception because it's an opoid and most countries knew better than to accept such classes of drugs because of well known experiences with such drugs in the past.
All of this mess of absurd mutually incompatible standards for single pair on copper is never seen in the ISP world, if we want a single pair of anything we use 9/125 singlemode fiber.
From experience, I can tell you that many people simply refer to this entire domain as CORS despite that S standing for Sharing. The Same Origin Policy is treated verbally more like the default state of CORS in some circles.

It is very confusing and I’m not entirely sure how it ended up like that.
Income inequality is irrelevant. The key metric is just how the income has changed for the bulk of the people.

The existence of a 100 people with 100 billion each really does nothing for the real purchasing power of the middle and lower class. Income inequality is a red herring designed to act as a political wedge and distract you from a failing government.
Does the place where you work have so many suicides it installed nets, like Foxconn?
I can tell you form experience having a significant other with a sufficient "gap" gets very demoralizing and frustrating. That, or I just can't appreciate what I have.
bit dissapointing that it doesn't actually render video into the terminal, just launches a video player
> They are, as are most pushing for bike helmets, seat belts, food safety, etc.

So, vaccines with unknown long term safety are the same as bike helmets, seat belts and food safety. Perfect analogies, thank you, you have clearly solved my concerns.
Just being curious. Could you explain the graph in [0]? I just don't understand it. Probably because as a non US citizen I for example already don't know what Chained Dollars are.

If I made 50k in say 2012 and now make 52k in 2022. Did my spendable income increase?

The linked graph would imply that imho.
Nice explanation! I’d add some further reading and practical advice at the end, like using slots=True in dataclasses or attrs classes when higher performance and lower memory usage are required.
I would be more likely to buy a Ferrari before I’d buy a $200 T-shirt.

“I’ll trade you 2 T-shirts for a month of groceries for my household” seems utterly non-sensical to me.

0 - https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/how-much-should-i...
Income inequality has increased because the top earners earned more. The poor people didn't become poorer.
But he also has an important caveat: "But if you make an effort to combine your income and your love, you are likely to end up compromising both, making a poverty income by doing something you don't quite love, or no longer love."

I love photography and for a while (approx 20 years ago) considered moving to it as a full-time job. But it quickly became obvious that the actual shutter-clicking would be a tiny part of running an overall photography business (and then smartphones and Alamy happened and the bottom dropped out of stock photography). So I'm glad I stuck with my mainstream job. It paid well enough to live and afford expensive lenses and the wildlife trips where I could put them through their paces. And from my current 60-year-old perspective, it also paid for retirement savings and pensions which I wouldn't have now if I'd tried to be a wedding photographer, say.

The other thing that is sometimes overlooked is the importance of health. If you drop out and then get very ill, and have a very seat-of-the-pants lifestyle, things can get dark and uncomfortable very quickly.

Not to say which is the right approach, just pointing out that it's worth considering how different future-yous will look back on your decision now. One who prioritises memories over possessions. One who isn't healthy and feels the cold. One who wants children. Etc
It's probably useful to distinguish between two kinds of "best practices".

One kind is things dealing directly with the underlying thing you are trying to accomplish with a program. Say it is a program doing some sort of physics or engineering calculation that at some point needs to add a bunch of floating point numbers. Best practice might include using something like Kahan summation [1] to reduce the error.

I'd expect to see that kind of best practice in both mature programs and new programs because it is something that directly relates to what the program actually is trying to do.

The other kind of "best practices" are those concerning the environment and practice of programming itself.

Many of those seem designed to deal with the case where there is a lot of turnover in who is working on the software. People join a project, work on it for a year or two, and then move off to something else.

You adopt these best practices so that new people will be productive faster so you can get useful work out of them before they leave. So these best practices tend to change as fad and fashion come and go.

The mature software that has been in use for a very long time I think is more likely to have a much higher percentage of its work done by people who have been working on it long term, and have a lower turnover, and when someone new does come on they stay longer.

They don't need to have their best practices match the fad and fashion best practices used by the shorter term projects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
"The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found", and yet not a single picture or illustration of said tomb.

This disappoints me greatly. When I was 13 I wondered what did Tutankhamun's tomb looked like, and yet it took me over 20 years until I saw an actual illustration. Looks like reporting on ancient tombs hasn't gotten any better since.

In case anyone else wonders what the tomb looked like, I found this layout:

http://www.arth.upenn.edu/522/puabi/puabi.html
API keys are for projects, authentication is for users. Read more here - https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/openapi/when-why-api...
If I'm reading Figure 5 ("Fraction of clients reached by each message.") correctly, in a simulated "neighborhood network" with 50 users, broadcast messages reach less than 50% of users?!
But they are better jobs and they are voluntary employees. That’s pretty much by definition not slavery.
When you consider that every pair of jeans, crappy or good, has a hidden cost of several gallons of burned diesel, several square meters of razed wildlands, and many kilos of natural resources that needed to be collected, processed, transported, reprocessed, re-transported, several times over, it's hard to call that a feature.

Think about all the cotton, then thread, then cloth, plus dye, plus metal, plus other thread for putting it together, all the transportation and machinery, all the manual labor in poor conditions, and so on, which go into that cheap pair of jeans. Now, consider that every time you buy a pair, you're voting for more of that to happen. Now, consider the environmental and habitat cost to us and the rest of the world contained in that one "cheap" pair of jeans.

I would not call that a feature.
We're still at Fusion Never levels of funding.
I'm at such a loss for what they were trying to do with that that I started wondering if that was intentional.
Why Musk’s biggest space gamble is freaking out his competitors
The real problem that someone had to urgently explain any of this in the first place.
Message from Samuel Cook (CEO, SanityDesk). Ukraine
Thanks for reporting that! Are you perhaps using the Chrome translate function on that page? I got a similar issue of a user translating the page to Spanish.

The game is not really optimize for desktop, but that error should never happen! Thanks for your help!

BTW - I have released an upgrade today.
Once upon a time you had services, a kid would clean your windows and filled the gas for you, a productive kid that could buy a house at 20yo.

Today at 30yo you are still living with your parents and services you receive are over-the-phone-from-another-country, and it takes about 20-30 phone calls to get something simple done.
Yes, Google Talk federated with other XMPP servers: https://support.google.com/code/answer/55702?hl=en&ref_topic...
> starting a family in a 2 bedroom condo isn't totally appealing to me.

I think the main issue is not the condo itself but where the condo is.

From my experience living in an apartment but with walkable area around me and several large parks within walking distance felt very much equivalent in life quality than now living in a house with a garden. If anything large park areas are usually a lot more interesting for kids than your garden.

I do think urban planning should incentivize "village" building. For x square meters of construction you must build y square meters of green spaces and z square meters of local commerce. Otherwise you just get Truman show suburbs.
Income inequality has risen dramatically since the onset of modern neoliberal financialised capitalism. Even though workers produce more, their wages have been stagnant or receding in real terms for the last 40-50 years. Nearly all of the gains have went only to a very small percentage of people. Even though value is created by all, it's appropriated by less and less people, in a more and more skewed distribution. And your argument is "yall just jealous lol"? People just want what's theirs.

When the wealthiest country in world history has 1 in 6 children living in poverty, I really think you ought to look at yourself in the mirror when you talk about "envy".
Customer satisfaction is the second highest in Europe.

The number of journeys has increased by 128%.

The average real-terms increase in fares has been lower than under British Rail.

We now have the safest railways in Europe [1].

The amount of investment has gone up nine-fold. [2]

What hasn't happened is stopping politicians meddling with it, this was a problem before and continues to be.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-sa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of...
But what's the point in each person having unique pronouns that have to be individually memorized? How is that different from a name?
Enforcing the law is, in a sense, evil. At the end of the day enforcement is some combination of violence, coercion and thoughtfully depriving people of life/liberty/comfort.

The enforcement system is wildly imperfect and a side effect of that is the people involved have to make judgement calls about how to treat the people who get caught up in the legal system. If you can think of a way around that then you'll get your name in the history books.

> Your argument strikes me as incredibly dishonest at best, and just plain evil at worst.

Hopefully the path from dishonest to evil passes through some more positive places, because there are a lot of options that seem to be missing there.
It's also because most ship from aliexpress directly to your address. We stopped noticing that all of the mundane gadgets out there cost in the range of 12.99 to 19.99, whereas you buy 50 for 200 on Aliexpress
50 years ago would be 1972. In 1972 if you were filling up the gas tank of the best-selling vehicle you would be filling the gas tank of a VW Beetle with gasoline infused with a potent neuro-toxin. None of that screams quality or long-term thinking to me.
A recent (8 days ago) comment on the hexandcounter subreddit post announcing that game says they're still playing, though it's not confirmed by Jake himself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hexandcounter/comments/6r645b/my_fr...

The last official update was a year ago, they were just over 1/3 through the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cigarettes/comments/lez1wn/camel_cr...

(Personally, I don't find any of the - very few - claims to have played a full game solitaire to be plausible, and I'm not aware of anyone even claiming to have played a full multiplayer one.)
If everyone implements their own custom extensions, you would have to compile your software for each RISC-V device. To be able to do that, the compiler needs to support those extensions. I think that is what was meant with "you lost software compatibility".

Edit: I am mistaken, thanks everyone for educating me.
Einstein effect: Scientists carry greater credibility than spiritual gurus
There’s only one L2 Ethernet, but there are many many L1 Ethernets. 1000BASE‑T and 10GBASE-LR are by far the most popular L1 standards and that’s probably why you don’t hear about the other 1000 standards.
Here's a message from Samuel Cook,CEO, SanityDesk. The SanityDesk team is fast evacuating from Kiev:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015984405070616...
This idea is as inevitable as it's horrible. It amazes me just how much of the web is supported by "ads". And the depths to which a company will sink in order to increase their ad revenue. And just when you think we have hit rock bottom, a new company will dig to greater depths.
That's tied in with the need to be succinct. Expressing uncertainty often adds verbosity and cognitive load onto the reader. Often it also adds redundancy, given that uncertainty should be taken for granted in certain contexts. Note that in these last two sentences, the word "often" added verbosity, which is an example of what I am talking about.

If someone is just expressing their opinion, I don't like to read a bunch of hedging. I get that you are uncertain and this is just your opinion, stop telling me that over and over and over.

I wish there was a new shorthand/syntax/convention/notation for expressing uncertainty. All statements are delivered succinctly, with some notation for saying I am only 70% certain, perhaps by putting 0.7 as small superscript text.
I can't believe I'm reading on this website, when the last drum of oil has been burnt shipping fast fashion and useless plastic junk across the world and the air is too thick with smoke to breathe, at least we'll know it was all for the best, for we got to swap jeans every 3 months rather than every 5 years.
It has a new name these days.
> America's strength lies in its founding principles based on freedom and that is something every nation looks up to.

That's mostly propaganda. The reality is Americans have very little freedom because the country is effectively governed by corporations.
What really bothers me more about this type of article than the ideological slant is the hyperbolic nature of the claims that end up decontextualizing them. People in the 1920s would not have been 'rocked' at all to discover the existence of an ancient Mesopotamian queen. They were raised on stories of Semiramis and the Queen of Sheba - in fact, I'd bet quite a bit more of the 1920s population knew who these two people were than the 2020s population, since education and even pop culture then was much more informed by classical literature.

Telling the story like this totally transforms the context in a way that makes it just wrong, to make it more impressive to the modern reader. This is really common nowadays in news articles, too.
Will self-driving taxi service be generally available by 2025?
They're not though. They're all questions about your market. They're asking you to demonstrate domain knowledge.

If you put something forwards-looking like "Google are really big so they might become a competitor!" it wouldn't look great. It's technically true, but it's not interesting. It doesn't demonstrate that you know your market. If you put "Lithuanian Startup X has launched a product in this market 60 days ago, which reached position 3 on Product Hunt, and had a successful Show HN post" then you start to look like you actually follow what's happening. You know your market, and can show you research it. No vague guesses about the future, just demonstrable knowledge about the present.
The difficulty increases pushing out inefficient miners who no longer can afford to mine due to electricity costs. This is a process that always happens.
When my son was in his teens, the phone company still sent with the bill a log of every call, maybe even every SMS. I marveled at the thickness of the list, but never inspected it.
When being interested in traffic simulations, you may try https://www.eclipse.org/sumo/ as well.
That's a great idea. I will post an update!
> We should not have allowed to allow burning this on the spot ever.

You do understand that the alternative is the rig blowing up at times right? Kinda feels like arguing we need to reduce animal suffering by burning down the rainforest so there’s no animals left that can suffer.
It’s not about me (relatively wealthy denizen of HN) but people choosing between food and rent. It bothers me that some people are in this situation whilst others have so much wealth that they never have to work a day, if they choose to. I don’t mind some inequality, but I think don’t think we should tolerate such a low floor when the ceiling is so high.
They have different problems that will make them try to leave Tibet, I assume.
Warp – Segmented Live Video Transport
It means that US average income, taking into account inflation, has risen.
Isn't ACH a US specific thing?

For sending money inside a country is easy generally, international payments are much harder.
TRAs are really trying to warp the meaning of “violence”.
What is surprising is that in 2022 people believe everything that they read.
SOP is certainly not a relaxation. SOP restricts all those cross-origin request.

I don't quite understand what you mean with PUT and DELETE not being allowed before SOP? What exact operations where not possible before SOP and are now (and pose a security risk?)
> Do you claim those people are making choices of their own free will?

Yes.

> When they have no other option?

Peasant's life was the other option.

> They can't even change their government for christs sake

And you can? I mean, beyond replacing a psychopath for another...
Yeah , people have been lamenting the end of horses for a while, too.
Ask HN: Did YouTube start recommending more short videos to you out of nowhere?
I don't watch YouTube Shorts and I also don't watch videos shorter than 3 minutes. And yet they still show up a lot on the recommendations page, even though I click "Not interested" button every time. I do use a Google account and YouTube history is turned on.

Does anyone else notice this?
I remember when my employer (together with a whole bunch of other agencies) got bought by a global consulting company.

Towards us employees as well as to the market the talk was always to generate better opportunities that one agency alone would not be able to target (read win pitches from the big corporations).

Shortly thereafter we were the biggest digital agency in ASGR (Austria, Switzerland, Germany & Russia) and every MD was clapping themselves on the shoulder for achieving this. Nobody seemed to mind that the status came because of a big shopping spree by Accenture and not from natural growth. And what does it actually mean to be the biggest?

But I have yet to see said opportunities being won after nearly 5 years.

Sure there were some big wins. But in the end the existing agency brands won these pitches, not because they were part of Accenture (Interactive) but brought their own DNA and approach to the table. On the contrary - having to price in the Accenture overhead either led to loosing because of being too expensive or the necessity to offshore most work to India (or nearshore towards Eastern Europe).
I find it hard to believe there is no way to probe for extensions and provide a fallback

It's a problem that already exists right now.

If you compile code on a machine with SSE or AVX and run it on an old Pentium, does it crash?

I had a fun bug once running ARM code that had some NEON in it and it would crashed on Scaleway's VPS bc their servers ran chips that didn't have NEON implemented
> Why only excel and word? Pretty much because I almost can't install anything in company laptop. excel Macros also prohibited. I was thinking to create a simple js automation app in browser if it gets attention

FYI assuming you're on windows from the office suite, python msi installer allows you to install without admin escalation (install just for this user). Definitely a lot easier to automate jobs with python.
I can’t tell if it’s a joke?
I've been evaluating Kubestack internally and I had just a couple questions. First of all, thank you for your work! I can't tell what the business case is. Is Kubestack something you're just passionate about offering totally for free to th community? Second, how does your ArgoCD module compare to the other popular one in the space? [1]

And finally, do you know of any users using Kubestack together with Terragrunt? I'm a big fan of Gruntwork's tooling. Given Kubestack is "just" Terraform, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be compatible except when used together with the kbst CLI tool.

[1] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/oboukili/argocd/late...
Infrastructure in this post DevOps world
Intel CPUs have plenty of optional extensions. Basically you're building two versions of machine code and choose correct one at runtime.
> As the cost of targeting falls, the bar for "important enough" also falls.

Just want to highlight this point, as this is important and probably not given enough conscious thought.
> Does the place where you work have so many suicides it installed nets, like Foxconn?

Research the thing. Back when the suicide "scandal" made the news, Foxconn had over 1 M employees. The suicide rate was actually lower than the average suicide rate in China. But since they had so many people, some of them were statistically bound to suicide for... whatever reasons people suicide for.
Notice how you're justifying the system by arguing inside the system. "The system is not unequal because the system has allocated rewards this way". Classic circular reasoning: justifying a thing with the thing itself.

Poor people and even the median did indeed become poorer, as wages either stagnated or even declined in real terms. Some consumer goods particularly electronics have decreased in price, but essentials have not: they increased a little (food) to a lot (housing, healthcare).
Being passive aggressive is common among toddlers and mediocre companies.

People who build unicorns know how to communicate. It‘s not that hard, really.